Advice on Memorizing the Verses on Logic
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh, and may Allah reward you with good and multiply your reward, and increase you in His blessings, and grant you and your children the highest level of Paradise, and our Muslim brothers. This questioner says, Honorable Shaykh: Do you advise us, O Shaykh, to memorize these verses that discuss logic?
Answer:
I do not advise you to memorize them, because they are of no benefit and are extremely difficult. Furthermore, they offer no benefit. As some of the Salaf said about the science of theology (kalam): "The science of kalam is the flesh of a camel washed on a rugged mountain; it is neither easy to climb nor fat to select. Knowing it brings no benefit, and ignorance of it causes no harm. Ignorance of it causes no harm, and knowing it brings no benefit, so there is no benefit in it." And Allah the Exalted has made us self-sufficient with His Book and the Sunnah of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him).
And this logic, where did it come from? It came from the Greeks, brought from the Greeks, so it is from the sciences of the disbelieving Greeks.
Al-Ma'mun (may Allah pardon him) brought it when he translated the Greek books. This evil school of thought spread, and it is of no benefit; rather, it is harmful.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh, and may Allah reward you with good and multiply your reward, and increase you in His blessings, and grant you and your children the highest level of Paradise, and our Muslim brothers. This questioner says, Honorable Shaykh: Do you advise us, O Shaykh, to memorize these verses that discuss logic?
Answer:
I do not advise you to memorize them, because they are of no benefit and are extremely difficult. Furthermore, they offer no benefit. As some of the Salaf said about the science of theology (kalam): "The science of kalam is the flesh of a camel washed on a rugged mountain; it is neither easy to climb nor fat to select. Knowing it brings no benefit, and ignorance of it causes no harm. Ignorance of it causes no harm, and knowing it brings no benefit, so there is no benefit in it." And Allah the Exalted has made us self-sufficient with His Book and the Sunnah of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him).
And this logic, where did it come from? It came from the Greeks, brought from the Greeks, so it is from the sciences of the disbelieving Greeks.
Al-Ma'mun (may Allah pardon him) brought it when he translated the Greek books. This evil school of thought spread, and it is of no benefit; rather, it is harmful.
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