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ArticlesOfTheIslamicFaithByGhazali, page : 60
and because the good early generations agreed on it.
The learned are expected to watch over it for the ordinary people
against the ambiguities of the innovators, just as the
magistrates are expected to safeguard their property against
the attacks of the oppressors and ravishers.
When both its harm and benefit are fully understood, one should
be like the physician who is adept in the use of dangerous
drugs, which he does not apply except to the right place and
only at the time of desparation.
To explain further, the laymen and the ordinary people who are
engaged in crafts and trades should be left alone in the integrity
of their beliefs which they have accepted when they
were instructed in the faith which we have already stated.
To teach them disputation is decidedly harmful to them as it
The learned are expected to watch over it for the ordinary people
against the ambiguities of the innovators, just as the
magistrates are expected to safeguard their property against
the attacks of the oppressors and ravishers.
When both its harm and benefit are fully understood, one should
be like the physician who is adept in the use of dangerous
drugs, which he does not apply except to the right place and
only at the time of desparation.
To explain further, the laymen and the ordinary people who are
engaged in crafts and trades should be left alone in the integrity
of their beliefs which they have accepted when they
were instructed in the faith which we have already stated.
To teach them disputation is decidedly harmful to them as it