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SpiritualRoadmapbyGhazali, page : 126
It is curious, however, that if we replace the above expressions by expressions
from astrology, they admit the difference of times as reasonable. We may say, for
example: `Is it not the case that the horoscope varies according as the sun is in
the ascendant, in the ecliptic or in declension? And in their horoscopes do they
make this variation the basis of the difference of treatment and of length of life
and hour of death? Is there not a distinction between declension and the sun‟s
being in the ecliptic, and likewise between sunset and the sun‟s being towards
setting? Is there any way to believe this?‟ If it were not that he hears it in
astrological terminology, he would probably have experimentally observed its
falsity a hundred times. Yet he goes on habitually believing in it, so that
if an
astrologer says to him, `If the sun is in the ecliptic, and star A confronts, while the
ascendant is constellation B, then, should you put on a new garment at that time,
you will be killed in that garment‟; he will not put on the garment at that
time,
even though he may suffer from extreme cold and even though he hears this
from an astrologer whose falsity he has acknowledged a hundred times.
How on earth when a man‟s mind is capable of accepting such strange
from astrology, they admit the difference of times as reasonable. We may say, for
example: `Is it not the case that the horoscope varies according as the sun is in
the ascendant, in the ecliptic or in declension? And in their horoscopes do they
make this variation the basis of the difference of treatment and of length of life
and hour of death? Is there not a distinction between declension and the sun‟s
being in the ecliptic, and likewise between sunset and the sun‟s being towards
setting? Is there any way to believe this?‟ If it were not that he hears it in
astrological terminology, he would probably have experimentally observed its
falsity a hundred times. Yet he goes on habitually believing in it, so that
if an
astrologer says to him, `If the sun is in the ecliptic, and star A confronts, while the
ascendant is constellation B, then, should you put on a new garment at that time,
you will be killed in that garment‟; he will not put on the garment at that
time,
even though he may suffer from extreme cold and even though he hears this
from an astrologer whose falsity he has acknowledged a hundred times.
How on earth when a man‟s mind is capable of accepting such strange