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fact that the stars are glorious celestial bodies and awe inspiring to the hearts,
the hearts of mankind would naturally become focused upon them and would see
both good and evil required or forbidden by the stars with the result that the
Name of Allah would be erased from the heart. The feeble minded one does not
look beyond the means, and only the learned man who is well grounded in
knowledge would understand that the sun, moon, and the stars are subject to the
will of Allah.
A second reason is that astrology is purely guess work and in the opinion of the
average man, (the influence of the stars) is not determined either with certainty or
even probability. Pronouncements in connection with it are the result of
ignorance. Consequently, astrology has been pronounced blameworthy because
of this ignorance, not because it is knowledge.
A third reason (for which a kind of knowledge may be pronounced blameworthy)
is when the pursuit of that kind of knowledge does not give the practitioner any
real scientific advantage. Consequently, such knowledge is intrinsically
the hearts of mankind would naturally become focused upon them and would see
both good and evil required or forbidden by the stars with the result that the
Name of Allah would be erased from the heart. The feeble minded one does not
look beyond the means, and only the learned man who is well grounded in
knowledge would understand that the sun, moon, and the stars are subject to the
will of Allah.
A second reason is that astrology is purely guess work and in the opinion of the
average man, (the influence of the stars) is not determined either with certainty or
even probability. Pronouncements in connection with it are the result of
ignorance. Consequently, astrology has been pronounced blameworthy because
of this ignorance, not because it is knowledge.
A third reason (for which a kind of knowledge may be pronounced blameworthy)
is when the pursuit of that kind of knowledge does not give the practitioner any
real scientific advantage. Consequently, such knowledge is intrinsically