-
SpiritualRoadmapbyGhazali, page : 65
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 not truth the criterion of the man; and that is erroneous in the extreme.
This shows the incorrect tendency to simply reject the ethics of philosophers.
(b) There is also an incorrect tendency in accepting them. When a man looks
into their books, such as the `Brethren of Purity‟ and others, and sees how they
mingle their teaching with maxims of the prophets and utterances of mystics, he
often approves of these and accepts them, forming a high opinion of them. Next,
however, he readily accepts the falsehood they mix with that, because of the
good opinion resulting from what he noticed and approved. That is a way of
gradually slipping into falsehood.
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 not truth the criterion of the man; and that is erroneous in the extreme.
This shows the incorrect tendency to simply reject the ethics of philosophers.
(b) There is also an incorrect tendency in accepting them. When a man looks
into their books, such as the `Brethren of Purity‟ and others, and sees how they
mingle their teaching with maxims of the prophets and utterances of mystics, he
often approves of these and accepts them, forming a high opinion of them. Next,
however, he readily accepts the falsehood they mix with that, because of the
good opinion resulting from what he noticed and approved. That is a way of
gradually slipping into falsehood.