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comes to know, the glass of his naive beliefs is broken. This is a breakage which
cannot be mended, a
breakage not to be repaired by patching or by assembling of fragments. The glass must be melted once
again in the furnace for a new start, and out of it another fresh vessel formed‟.
I now hastened to follow out these four ways and investigate what these groups had
achieved,
commencing with the science of theology and then taking the way of philosophy, the
`authoritative
instruction‟ of the Batiniyah, and the way of mysticism, in that order.
I. The Science of Theology: its Aims and Achievements.
I started then, with the science of Theology (`ilm al-kalam), and obtained a thorough grasp of it.
I read the
books sound theologians and I myself wrote some books on the subject. But I found it was a science
which,
cannot be mended, a
breakage not to be repaired by patching or by assembling of fragments. The glass must be melted once
again in the furnace for a new start, and out of it another fresh vessel formed‟.
I now hastened to follow out these four ways and investigate what these groups had
achieved,
commencing with the science of theology and then taking the way of philosophy, the
`authoritative
instruction‟ of the Batiniyah, and the way of mysticism, in that order.
I. The Science of Theology: its Aims and Achievements.
I started then, with the science of Theology (`ilm al-kalam), and obtained a thorough grasp of it.
I read the
books sound theologians and I myself wrote some books on the subject. But I found it was a science
which,