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Spiritual_Roadmap_by_Ghazali, page : 60
These they borrow from the Divine scriptures revealed through the prophets and from the maxims
handed
down from the saints of old.
6. ETHICS. Their whole discussion of ethics consists in defining the characteristics and moral
constitution
of the soul and enumerating the various types of soul and the method of moderating and controlling
them.
This they borrow from the teaching of the mystics, those men of piety whose chief occupation is to
meditate
upon Allah, to oppose the passions, and to walk in the way leading to Allah by withdrawing from
worldly
pleasure. In their spiritual warfare they have learned about the virtues and vices of the soul and
the defects
in its actions, and what they have learned they have clearly expressed. The philosophers have
taken over
this teaching and mingled it with their own disquisitions, furtively using this
embellishment to sell their
rubbishy wares more readily. Assuredly there was in the age of the philosophers, as indeed there is
handed
down from the saints of old.
6. ETHICS. Their whole discussion of ethics consists in defining the characteristics and moral
constitution
of the soul and enumerating the various types of soul and the method of moderating and controlling
them.
This they borrow from the teaching of the mystics, those men of piety whose chief occupation is to
meditate
upon Allah, to oppose the passions, and to walk in the way leading to Allah by withdrawing from
worldly
pleasure. In their spiritual warfare they have learned about the virtues and vices of the soul and
the defects
in its actions, and what they have learned they have clearly expressed. The philosophers have
taken over
this teaching and mingled it with their own disquisitions, furtively using this
embellishment to sell their
rubbishy wares more readily. Assuredly there was in the age of the philosophers, as indeed there is