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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 the prophethood of
Muhammad, peace be upon him. If he is an unbeliever only because he denies
Muhammad, then there is no need to deny his other assertions which are not
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 the prophethood of
Muhammad, peace be upon him. If he is an unbeliever only because he denies
Muhammad, then there is no need to deny his other assertions which are not