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in every
age, a group of those godly men, of whom Allah never uncovers the world. They are the pillars of
the earth,
and by their blessings mercy comes down on the people of the earth, as we read in the Prophetic
Statement
where Muhammad, peace be upon him, says: “Through them you receive rain, through them you receive
sustenance; of their number were the men of the Cave”. And these, as the Koran declares, existed in
early
times (cp. Surah 18).
From the philosophers incorporating into their books concepts from the prophets and mystics there
arise
two evil tendencies, one in their supporters and one in their opponents.
(a) The evil tendency in the case of the opponent is serious. A crowd of men of slight intellect
imagines
that, because ethical concepts in philosophers‟ books are mixed with their own rubbish, all
reference to them
must be avoided and any person mentioning them must be a liar. They imagine this because they heard
age, a group of those godly men, of whom Allah never uncovers the world. They are the pillars of
the earth,
and by their blessings mercy comes down on the people of the earth, as we read in the Prophetic
Statement
where Muhammad, peace be upon him, says: “Through them you receive rain, through them you receive
sustenance; of their number were the men of the Cave”. And these, as the Koran declares, existed in
early
times (cp. Surah 18).
From the philosophers incorporating into their books concepts from the prophets and mystics there
arise
two evil tendencies, one in their supporters and one in their opponents.
(a) The evil tendency in the case of the opponent is serious. A crowd of men of slight intellect
imagines
that, because ethical concepts in philosophers‟ books are mixed with their own rubbish, all
reference to them
must be avoided and any person mentioning them must be a liar. They imagine this because they heard