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to which most people devote their attention. As a result, most
people‟s knowledge only makes them bolder in disobeying Allah most high.
Genuine knowledge, however, increases a man‟s reverence and fear and hope;
and these come between him and sins (in the strict sense) as distinct from the
unintentional faults which are inseparable from man in his times of weakness.
This proneness to lesser sins does not argue any weakness of faith, however.
The believer, when he goes astray, repents. He is far from sinning intentionally
and deliberately.

In conclusion: These are the points I wanted to discuss in criticism of the faults

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of the philosophers and the party of ta`lim and the faults of those who oppose
them without using their methods.

We pray Allah Almighty that He will number us among those whom He has
chosen and elected, whom He has led to the truth and guided, whom He has
inspired to recollect Him and not to forget Him, whom He has preserved from the
evil in themselves so that they do not prefer ought to Him, and whom He has
made His own so that they serve only Him.

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