The Meaning of the Poet's Statement: (Speaking on Logic) Have you heard a report for your evidence in some of it*** Or sensed a clarification for it? Can the foundation of religion be what guidance is completed***
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The Shaykh : Then he said, may Allah have mercy on him:
"Have you heard a report for your evidence in some of it*** Or sensed a clarification for it"
What is the answer? Yes or no? Absolutely not. Their evidence, by which they argue, is not based on revelation, nor on reason, nor on sense perception, nor on fitrah (the innate natural disposition).
"Can the foundation of religion be what guidance is completed*** Except by it, and by it faith is strengthened
And other than it is not a proof; whoever does not encompass*** Knowledge of it has not been saved from disbelief"
This is a refutation of the logicians who said that whoever does not encompass knowledge of logic is not certain of his affair. And this logic, as Shaykh al-Islam (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "I have always known that Greek logic is not needed by the intelligent, nor does the dull-witted benefit from it" So there is no good in it, as long as the dull-witted does not benefit from it and the intelligent does not need it. It has become a loss of knowledge; it is not befitting for a person to waste his life in it.
"Have you heard a report for your evidence in some of it*** Or sensed a clarification for it"
What is the answer? Yes or no? Absolutely not. Their evidence, by which they argue, is not based on revelation, nor on reason, nor on sense perception, nor on fitrah (the innate natural disposition).
"Can the foundation of religion be what guidance is completed*** Except by it, and by it faith is strengthened
And other than it is not a proof; whoever does not encompass*** Knowledge of it has not been saved from disbelief"
This is a refutation of the logicians who said that whoever does not encompass knowledge of logic is not certain of his affair. And this logic, as Shaykh al-Islam (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "I have always known that Greek logic is not needed by the intelligent, nor does the dull-witted benefit from it" So there is no good in it, as long as the dull-witted does not benefit from it and the intelligent does not need it. It has become a loss of knowledge; it is not befitting for a person to waste his life in it.