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pertains to the activities of this world and is contained in the books of law and
entrusted to the lawyers, the learned men of this world: the second pertains to
the activities of the Hereafter. It is the science of the conditions of the heart, it‟s
praiseworthy and blameworthy characteristics, what is acceptable before Allah
and what is reprehensible to Him.
All these are treated in the last part of this book, i.e., the whole book of The
Revival of the Sciences of Religion. It includes the knowledge of what issues
from the heart and affects the senses in their acts of worship and usages of life,
all of, which are treated in the first part of this book.
Third are the auxiliary (muqaddimat). These act as the instrument for the
sciences of jurisprudence. Thus linguistic science and syntax are but instruments
for the knowledge of the Book of Allah and the usage (sunnah) of His Prophet. In
themselves linguistic science and syntax are not jurisprudence sciences, but it
has become necessary to engage in their study because of the law since this law
has come in the language of Arabs. And whereas every law is revealed through
the medium of a particular language, the learning of that language becomes an
entrusted to the lawyers, the learned men of this world: the second pertains to
the activities of the Hereafter. It is the science of the conditions of the heart, it‟s
praiseworthy and blameworthy characteristics, what is acceptable before Allah
and what is reprehensible to Him.
All these are treated in the last part of this book, i.e., the whole book of The
Revival of the Sciences of Religion. It includes the knowledge of what issues
from the heart and affects the senses in their acts of worship and usages of life,
all of, which are treated in the first part of this book.
Third are the auxiliary (muqaddimat). These act as the instrument for the
sciences of jurisprudence. Thus linguistic science and syntax are but instruments
for the knowledge of the Book of Allah and the usage (sunnah) of His Prophet. In
themselves linguistic science and syntax are not jurisprudence sciences, but it
has become necessary to engage in their study because of the law since this law
has come in the language of Arabs. And whereas every law is revealed through
the medium of a particular language, the learning of that language becomes an