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ArticlesOfTheIslamicFaithByGhazali, page : 88
the people who are close to Allah decline to mention or divulge
comprises those things which are intelligible in themselves
and the minds do not fail to grasp, but their mention
is harmful to most hearers although it is not harmful to the
prophets and the people who are close to Allah.
The secret of the decrees of Allah which the learned men were
forbidden to divulge belongs to this part. Consequently it
is not unlikely that certain truths may be harmful to some people
just as the light of the sun is harmful to the eyes of
bats and the perfume of the rose is harmful to black-beetles.
And how could this be deemed unlikely when we know that our
saying that unbelief, adultery, sin, and evil exist all by
the Will of Allah, which in itself is true, but, nevertheless,
comprises those things which are intelligible in themselves
and the minds do not fail to grasp, but their mention
is harmful to most hearers although it is not harmful to the
prophets and the people who are close to Allah.
The secret of the decrees of Allah which the learned men were
forbidden to divulge belongs to this part. Consequently it
is not unlikely that certain truths may be harmful to some people
just as the light of the sun is harmful to the eyes of
bats and the perfume of the rose is harmful to black-beetles.
And how could this be deemed unlikely when we know that our
saying that unbelief, adultery, sin, and evil exist all by
the Will of Allah, which in itself is true, but, nevertheless,