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against that, and so I take wine to make my mind more lively‟. Ibn Sina actually writes in his
Testament that
he swore to Allah that he would do various things, and in particular that he would praise what the
sacred
Law prescribed, that he would not be lax in taking part in the public worship of Allah, and that he
would not
drink for pleasure but only as a tonic or medicine. Thus the net result of his purity of faith and
observance of
the obligations of worship was that he made an exception of drinking wine for medical purposes!
Such is the faith of those philosophers who profess religious adherence. Many have been deceived by
them; and the deceit is even greater because of the ineffectiveness of the criticism
leveled against the
philosophers, since that consisted, as we have shown above, in denying geometry and logic and
others of
their sciences which possess necessary truth.
I observed, then, to what an extent and for what reasons faith was weak among the various classes of
men; and I observed how I myself was occupied with resolving this doubt, indeed I had devoted so
Testament that
he swore to Allah that he would do various things, and in particular that he would praise what the
sacred
Law prescribed, that he would not be lax in taking part in the public worship of Allah, and that he
would not
drink for pleasure but only as a tonic or medicine. Thus the net result of his purity of faith and
observance of
the obligations of worship was that he made an exception of drinking wine for medical purposes!
Such is the faith of those philosophers who profess religious adherence. Many have been deceived by
them; and the deceit is even greater because of the ineffectiveness of the criticism
leveled against the
philosophers, since that consisted, as we have shown above, in denying geometry and logic and
others of
their sciences which possess necessary truth.
I observed, then, to what an extent and for what reasons faith was weak among the various classes of
men; and I observed how I myself was occupied with resolving this doubt, indeed I had devoted so