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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 the concepts from philosophers in the first
place, and their weak intellects concluded that, because their author is a
falsifier, the concepts are false.
This is like a man who hears a Christian assert, “There is no god but
Allah, and Jesus is the Messenger of Allah”. The man rejects this, saying,
“`This is a Christian conception” and does not ask himself whether the
Christian is an unbeliever because of this assertion or because he denies
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 the concepts from philosophers in the first
place, and their weak intellects concluded that, because their author is a
falsifier, the concepts are false.
This is like a man who hears a Christian assert, “There is no god but
Allah, and Jesus is the Messenger of Allah”. The man rejects this, saying,
“`This is a Christian conception” and does not ask himself whether the
Christian is an unbeliever because of this assertion or because he denies