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SpiritualRoadmapbyGhazali, page : 67
Again, when a man is bitten by a snake and needs the antidote, he turns from
it because he learns that it is extracted from the snake, the source of the poison,
and he requires to be shown the value of the antidote despite its source.
Likewise, a poor man in need of money, who shrinks from receiving the gold
taken out of the bag of the counterfeiter, ought to have it brought to his notice
that his shrinking is pure ignorance and is the cause of his missing the benefit he
seeks; he ought to be informed that the closeness of the counterfeit to the good
coin does not make the good coin counterfeit or the counterfeit good. In the same
way the proximity between truth and falsehood does not make truth falsehood
nor falsehood truth.
This is what we wanted to say about the baneful and mischievous influence of
philosophy.
3. The Danger of `Authoritative Instruction’.
By the time I had done away with the science of philosophy, understanding it
and marking what was false in it, I realized that this too did not satisfy my aim in
it because he learns that it is extracted from the snake, the source of the poison,
and he requires to be shown the value of the antidote despite its source.
Likewise, a poor man in need of money, who shrinks from receiving the gold
taken out of the bag of the counterfeiter, ought to have it brought to his notice
that his shrinking is pure ignorance and is the cause of his missing the benefit he
seeks; he ought to be informed that the closeness of the counterfeit to the good
coin does not make the good coin counterfeit or the counterfeit good. In the same
way the proximity between truth and falsehood does not make truth falsehood
nor falsehood truth.
This is what we wanted to say about the baneful and mischievous influence of
philosophy.
3. The Danger of `Authoritative Instruction’.
By the time I had done away with the science of philosophy, understanding it
and marking what was false in it, I realized that this too did not satisfy my aim in