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their errors are comprised under twenty heads, on three of which they must be reckoned infidels
and on
seventeen heretics. It was to show the falsity of their views on these twenty points that
I composed The
Incoherence of the Philosophers. The three points in which they differ from all the Muslims are as
follows:
(a) They say that for bodies there is no resurrection; it is bare spirits which are rewarded or
punished;
and the rewards and punishments are spiritual, not bodily. They certainly speak truth
in affirming the
spiritual ones, since these do exist as well; but they speak falsely in denying the bodily ones and
in their
pronouncements disbelieve the Divine law.
(b) They say that Allah knows universals but not particulars. This too is plain unbelief. The truth
is that
`there does not escape Him the weight of an atom in the heavens or in the earth‟ (Koran 34, 3).
and on
seventeen heretics. It was to show the falsity of their views on these twenty points that
I composed The
Incoherence of the Philosophers. The three points in which they differ from all the Muslims are as
follows:
(a) They say that for bodies there is no resurrection; it is bare spirits which are rewarded or
punished;
and the rewards and punishments are spiritual, not bodily. They certainly speak truth
in affirming the
spiritual ones, since these do exist as well; but they speak falsely in denying the bodily ones and
in their
pronouncements disbelieve the Divine law.
(b) They say that Allah knows universals but not particulars. This too is plain unbelief. The truth
is that
`there does not escape Him the weight of an atom in the heavens or in the earth‟ (Koran 34, 3).