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contradict the Book and the Prophetic practice (Sunna), then it is not necessary
to abstain from using them. If we adopt the attitude of abstaining from every truth
that the mind of a heretic has come to before us, then we would abstain from
much that is true.
If so, then we should ignore a great number of Koranic verses, Prophetic
Sayings, accounts of early Muslims, as well as all sayings of philosophers and
mystics. The reason for that is that the author of the book of the `Brethren of
Purity‟ cited them in his work. He argues from them and gradually enticed men of
weak understanding to accept his falsehoods; he goes on making claims until
heretics remove truth from our hands by depositing it in their writings.
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
to abstain from using them. If we adopt the attitude of abstaining from every truth
that the mind of a heretic has come to before us, then we would abstain from
much that is true.
If so, then we should ignore a great number of Koranic verses, Prophetic
Sayings, accounts of early Muslims, as well as all sayings of philosophers and
mystics. The reason for that is that the author of the book of the `Brethren of
Purity‟ cited them in his work. He argues from them and gradually enticed men of
weak understanding to accept his falsehoods; he goes on making claims until
heretics remove truth from our hands by depositing it in their writings.
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