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This is the final word of the faith of those who study the system of the theistic
philosophers, as you may learn from the works of Ibn Sina and Abu Nasr al-
Farabi.
These are the people who show politeness to Islam. Often you see one of them
reading the Koran, attending the Friday assembly and public Worship and
praising the sacred Law. Nevertheless he does not refrain from drinking wine and
from various wicked and immoral practices! If someone says to him, `If the
prophetic revelation is not genuine, why do you join in the prayers‟? perhaps he
will reply, `To exercise my body, and because it is a custom in the place, and to
keep my wealth and family‟. Or perhaps he says, `The sacred Law is genuine;
the prophetic revelation is true‟; then he is asked, `And why then do you drink
wine‟? and he replies, `Wine is forbidden only because it leads to enmity and
hatred; I am sufficiently wise to guard against that, and so I take wine to make
my mind more lively‟. Ibn Sina actually writes in his Testament that he swore to
Allah that he would do various things, and in particular that he would praise what
This is the final word of the faith of those who study the system of the theistic
philosophers, as you may learn from the works of Ibn Sina and Abu Nasr al-
Farabi.
These are the people who show politeness to Islam. Often you see one of them
reading the Koran, attending the Friday assembly and public Worship and
praising the sacred Law. Nevertheless he does not refrain from drinking wine and
from various wicked and immoral practices! If someone says to him, `If the
prophetic revelation is not genuine, why do you join in the prayers‟? perhaps he
will reply, `To exercise my body, and because it is a custom in the place, and to
keep my wealth and family‟. Or perhaps he says, `The sacred Law is genuine;
the prophetic revelation is true‟; then he is asked, `And why then do you drink
wine‟? and he replies, `Wine is forbidden only because it leads to enmity and
hatred; I am sufficiently wise to guard against that, and so I take wine to make
my mind more lively‟. Ibn Sina actually writes in his Testament that he swore to
Allah that he would do various things, and in particular that he would praise what