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private study without the help of an instructor. I made progress towards this aim during my hours
of free
time after teaching the religious sciences and writing, for at this period I was burdened with the
teaching
and instruction of three hundred students in Baghdad. By my solitary reading Allah brought me in
less than
two years to a complete understanding of the sciences of the philosophers. Thereafter
I continued to
constantly reflect for nearly a year on what I had come to understand, going over it in my mind
again and
again and probing its jumbled depths, until I comprehended surely and certainly how far it was
deceitful
and confusing and how far true and representing reality.

Here is an account of this discipline and the achievement of its sciences. There are various
schools of
philosophers, and their approaches are divided into various branches; but throughout
their numerous
schools they suffer from the defect of being infidels and irreligious men, even though some are