Images al ghazali2/18/2023 ![]() ![]() (For a nice contemporary example of such a strategy: Badiou uses the prestige of set theory to advance his own philosophy.) Moreover, he suggests that they, in fact, used the prestige of the (true) Sufis's teaching, which they pass off as their own, to advance their own (false) original contributions. He treats what is true of their moral philosophy as plagiarized from the Sufis. The charge that they are unoriginal is repeated when it comes to the moral sciences of the philosophers. ![]() (A position recently d efended by Yoram Hazony. That is to say, Al-Ghazali treats the Bible and Quran (he uses the plural prophets) as - inter alia - contribution to political philosophy. They are original because they often just echo (and plagiarize) the wisdom of Scriptures. He does not deny that they know the truth, but (to simplify) he insists they are unoriginal and fail to deal with the highest matters focusing primarily on statecraft. Sura 18).-Al-Ghazali "Deliverance from Error" translated by Richard McCarthy (50).Ī year and a half ago, I looked at Al-Ghazali's criticism of the political science of the philosophers. For they are the pillars of the earth, and by their blessings the divine mercy descends upon earthdwellers as is declared in the tradition from Muhammad - God’s blessing and peace be upon him! - in which he says: “Because of them you receive rain, and thanks to them you receive sustenance, and among them were the Companions of the Cave.” Such godly men existed in ancient times as the Qur’ ur declares (Cf. There was indeed in their age, nay but there is in every age, a group of godly men of whom God Most High never leaves the world destitute. Then the philosophers took over these ideas and mixed them with their own doctrines, using the lustre afforded by them to promote the circulation of their own false teaching. In the course of their spiritual combat the good habits of the soul and its shortcomings had been disclosed to them and also the defects that vitiate its actions. These were godly men who applied themselves assiduously to invoking God, resisting passion, and following the way leading to God Most High by shunning worldly pleasures. ![]() This they simply took over from the sayings of the Sufis. All they have to say about the moral sciences comes down to listing the qualities and habits of the soul, and recording their generic and specific kinds, and the way to cultivate the good ones and combat the bad. ![]()
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