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them lose hope in the spirit of Allah; nor discarded the Koran in favor of
something else.”
The second term to have been altered is the science of religion (al-ilm), which
used to be applied to the knowledge of Allah, His miracles, and His works among
His servants and creatures. When, therefore, the Caliph Umar died, Ibn Musud
exclaimed: “Indeed nine tenths of the science of religion (al-ilm) has passed
away.” He thus designated this knowledge as the science, using the definite
articles, and then explained it as the knowledge of Allah. Yet people used the
term freely and altered its meaning by restriction until it became more commonly
applied to those who debate cases of jurisprudence and the like with adversaries
and are dubbed learned in the truth, versatile in knowledge.
The third term (to suffer alteration) was theology (tawhid), which has now
become equivalent to scholastic theology (sina‟at al-kalam), the knowledge of the
methods of argumentation, the manner of confounding adversaries, and the
ability to be diffuse in speech by means of asking too many questions, raising
doubts, and formulating requisites, to an extent that some of those groups have
something else.”
The second term to have been altered is the science of religion (al-ilm), which
used to be applied to the knowledge of Allah, His miracles, and His works among
His servants and creatures. When, therefore, the Caliph Umar died, Ibn Musud
exclaimed: “Indeed nine tenths of the science of religion (al-ilm) has passed
away.” He thus designated this knowledge as the science, using the definite
articles, and then explained it as the knowledge of Allah. Yet people used the
term freely and altered its meaning by restriction until it became more commonly
applied to those who debate cases of jurisprudence and the like with adversaries
and are dubbed learned in the truth, versatile in knowledge.
The third term (to suffer alteration) was theology (tawhid), which has now
become equivalent to scholastic theology (sina‟at al-kalam), the knowledge of the
methods of argumentation, the manner of confounding adversaries, and the
ability to be diffuse in speech by means of asking too many questions, raising
doubts, and formulating requisites, to an extent that some of those groups have