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him, `If the prophetic revelation is not genuine, why do you join in the
prayers‟? perhaps he will reply, `To exercise my body, and because it is a
custom in the place, and to keep my wealth and family‟. Or perhaps he
says, `The sacred Law is genuine; the prophetic revelation is true‟; then he
is asked, `And why then do you drink wine‟? and he replies, `Wine is
forbidden only because it leads to enmity and hatred; I am sufficiently wise
to guard against that, and so I take wine to make my mind more lively‟. Ibn
Sina actually writes in his Testament that he swore to Allah that he would
do various things, and in particular that he would praise what the sacred
Law prescribed, that he would not be lax in taking part in the public worship
of Allah, and that he would not drink for pleasure but only as a tonic or
medicine. Thus the net result of his purity of faith and observance of the
obligations of worship was that he made an exception of drinking wine for
medical purposes!
Such is the faith of those philosophers who profess religious adherence.
Many have been deceived by them; and the deceit is even greater because
of the ineffectiveness of the criticism leveled against the philosophers, since
that consisted, as we have shown above, in denying geometry and logic
prayers‟? perhaps he will reply, `To exercise my body, and because it is a
custom in the place, and to keep my wealth and family‟. Or perhaps he
says, `The sacred Law is genuine; the prophetic revelation is true‟; then he
is asked, `And why then do you drink wine‟? and he replies, `Wine is
forbidden only because it leads to enmity and hatred; I am sufficiently wise
to guard against that, and so I take wine to make my mind more lively‟. Ibn
Sina actually writes in his Testament that he swore to Allah that he would
do various things, and in particular that he would praise what the sacred
Law prescribed, that he would not be lax in taking part in the public worship
of Allah, and that he would not drink for pleasure but only as a tonic or
medicine. Thus the net result of his purity of faith and observance of the
obligations of worship was that he made an exception of drinking wine for
medical purposes!
Such is the faith of those philosophers who profess religious adherence.
Many have been deceived by them; and the deceit is even greater because
of the ineffectiveness of the criticism leveled against the philosophers, since
that consisted, as we have shown above, in denying geometry and logic