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AlGhazalisIhya-Book_of_knowledge, page : 62
Should you say: “Why did you in your classification of the sciences make no
mention of theology and philosophy and not show whether they are blameworthy
or praiseworthy?” They know all that theology offers in the way of useful
evidence is contained in the Koran and Sunnah (traditions). Whatever evidence
is not contained therein is either reprehensible argumentation (which, as will be
seen, is an innovation), or mere wrangling by dwelling on distinctions or
amplification through the array of different opinions, most of, which are drivel and
nonsense, despised by the mind and rejected by the ears, while others are
rumbling into things unrelated to Religion and not customary during the first
period of Islam. To enter into such discussions at all was then regarded heresy,
but things have now changed. Innovations, which turn people from the dictates of
the Koran and the tradition have arisen and a group has emerged who made
imitations of the Book and the Hadith and based upon it false speculation, so that
certain dangerous things have necessarily become permissible; they have even
become as binding as the collective duty. To such an extent would an innovator
go whenever he purposes to preach a heresy.
As to philosophy, it is not in itself a single branch of science but comprises four:
mention of theology and philosophy and not show whether they are blameworthy
or praiseworthy?” They know all that theology offers in the way of useful
evidence is contained in the Koran and Sunnah (traditions). Whatever evidence
is not contained therein is either reprehensible argumentation (which, as will be
seen, is an innovation), or mere wrangling by dwelling on distinctions or
amplification through the array of different opinions, most of, which are drivel and
nonsense, despised by the mind and rejected by the ears, while others are
rumbling into things unrelated to Religion and not customary during the first
period of Islam. To enter into such discussions at all was then regarded heresy,
but things have now changed. Innovations, which turn people from the dictates of
the Koran and the tradition have arisen and a group has emerged who made
imitations of the Book and the Hadith and based upon it false speculation, so that
certain dangerous things have necessarily become permissible; they have even
become as binding as the collective duty. To such an extent would an innovator
go whenever he purposes to preach a heresy.
As to philosophy, it is not in itself a single branch of science but comprises four: