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Spiritual_Roadmap_by_Ghazali, page : 66
The lowest degree of education is to distinguish oneself from the ignorant ordinary man. The
educated
man does not loathe honey even if he finds it in a surgeon‟s cupping-glass; he realizes that the
cupping-
glass does not alter the honey. The natural aversion rests on popular ignorance, arising from the
fact that
the cupping-glass is made for impure blood. Men imagine that the blood is impure
because it is in the
cupping-glass and are not aware that impurity is due to a property of blood itself.
Since this property is
absent from the honey, the fact that the honey is in such a container does not change its quality.
To think so
is fanciful and false.
Yet this is the prevalent idea among the majority of men. When someone ascribes a statement to an
author they approve of, they accept it even though it is false; whenever someone ascribes it to an
author
they disapprove of, they reject it even though it is true. They always make the man the criterion
of truth and
educated
man does not loathe honey even if he finds it in a surgeon‟s cupping-glass; he realizes that the
cupping-
glass does not alter the honey. The natural aversion rests on popular ignorance, arising from the
fact that
the cupping-glass is made for impure blood. Men imagine that the blood is impure
because it is in the
cupping-glass and are not aware that impurity is due to a property of blood itself.
Since this property is
absent from the honey, the fact that the honey is in such a container does not change its quality.
To think so
is fanciful and false.
Yet this is the prevalent idea among the majority of men. When someone ascribes a statement to an
author they approve of, they accept it even though it is false; whenever someone ascribes it to an
author
they disapprove of, they reject it even though it is true. They always make the man the criterion
of truth and