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SpiritualRoadmapbyGhazali, page : 83
It is truly amazing that men should toil all their life long searching for
knowledge and in the end be content with such feeble and emaciated knowledge,
while imagining that they have attained the utmost aims of the sciences! These
claimants to knowledge we also have examined, probing into both external and
internal features of their views. All they amounted to was a deception of the
ordinary man and the weak intellect by proving the need for an „instructor‟. Their
further arguments to show that there is no need for instruction by theological
reasoning are strong and unanswerable until one tries to help them to prove the
need for an „instructor‟ by saying, `Give us some examples of his knowledge and
of his "instruction".‟ Then the exponent is at a loss. `Now that you have submitted
this difficulty to me‟, he says, `I shall search for a solution; my present object,
however, is limited to what I have already said‟. He knows that, if he were to
attempt to proceed further, his shameful condition would be revealed and he
would be unable to resolve the least of the problems -that he would be unable
even to understand them, far less to answer them.
This is the real condition in which they are. As it is said, `Try them and you will
hate them‟!-after we had tried them we left them also severely alone.
knowledge and in the end be content with such feeble and emaciated knowledge,
while imagining that they have attained the utmost aims of the sciences! These
claimants to knowledge we also have examined, probing into both external and
internal features of their views. All they amounted to was a deception of the
ordinary man and the weak intellect by proving the need for an „instructor‟. Their
further arguments to show that there is no need for instruction by theological
reasoning are strong and unanswerable until one tries to help them to prove the
need for an „instructor‟ by saying, `Give us some examples of his knowledge and
of his "instruction".‟ Then the exponent is at a loss. `Now that you have submitted
this difficulty to me‟, he says, `I shall search for a solution; my present object,
however, is limited to what I have already said‟. He knows that, if he were to
attempt to proceed further, his shameful condition would be revealed and he
would be unable to resolve the least of the problems -that he would be unable
even to understand them, far less to answer them.
This is the real condition in which they are. As it is said, `Try them and you will
hate them‟!-after we had tried them we left them also severely alone.