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The knowledge obtained from intellectual consideration is never safe from the inclusion of doubt and confusion in it and slander in the matter that leads to it

[ Knowledge is not valid for anyone except for the one who knows things by himself ]

And know that knowledge is not valid for anyone except for the one who knows things by himself, and everyone who knows something by something that is in excess of himself is an imitator of that excess in what he gave him. Other than God is knowledge of something except through imitation, so let us imitate God, especially in knowledge of it. Rather, we said, Knowledge of something other than God is not valid except by imitation, for a person does not know anything except by the power of one of his powers that God has given him, which are the senses and the intellect. What he gives may be wrong, and the matter may agree with what he is in himself, or imitate his mind in what it gives him of necessity or consideration. In what he told about himself in his books and on the tongues of his messengers, and if he wants to know things, he does not know them by what his powers give him, and he strives for a great deal of obedience until the truth is his hearing and his sight and all his powers, so he knows all things by God and knows God by God, because it is necessary to follow enters you in y You have ignorance, no doubt, no doubt, no doubt, for I have alerted you to a matter that you heard, for the wise men of the eyes imagine that they are scholars of what he has given them sight, sense and reason, and they are in the position of imitating them. Sense, intellect, and thought, and between what is not mistaken about it and what they know. Perhaps what they have made a mistake will be correct, and there is no remedy for this incurable disease, except for the one whose knowledge is of all that is known by God and not by anything else. He knows and is not ignorant and does not imitate in his knowledge and everyone who imitates except God, he imitates whoever enters the error and his injury will be by agreement. We see nothing but taqlid. It is more likely for us to imitate this named Messenger, and what is called that it is the word of God, and we learned it by imitation, until the truth was we heard and saw, and we knew things by God, and we knew these divisions by God, so our injury was in imitating this by agreement, because we said that whatever happens to the mind or something from the strong, something is on what He is against him in himself, but by agreement. So we did not say that he errs in every case. Rather, we said that we do not know his mistake from his injury. So when the truth was all his powers, and the knowledge of matters in God at that time, he knew the injury in the strong from the error, and this is what we went to. No one can deny it, for he finds it from himself. If this is decided, then occupy yourself with obeying what God has commanded you to do of obeying Him, observing your heart in what comes into it, being modest in God, standing at His limits, being alone with Him, and preferring His honor, so that the truth will be all your strength, so you will be aware of your command, and I have advised you, as we have seen the truth. And the The correct ideas, while establishing their evidence for the belief of the informant and the necessity of believing in them, then imitate your Lord, as imitation is necessary, and do not imitate your mind in its interpretation, for your mind has agreed with you on taqlid with the validity of this saying that it is from God. To God who says it, then work until you come down in knowledge about it as it is, then you will know that knowledge and that knowledge is required and the correct knowledge that falsehood does not come to it from before it or from behind it. It has a strange way, so we say that Al-Muhasabi mentioned that knowledge is knowledge of four things: God, the soul, the world and Satan, and that the Messenger of God, may God s prayers and peace be upon him, said that

Knowledge of God has no path but self-knowledge

He said: He who knows himself knows his Lord

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He said, I know you himself, I know you by his Lord

So He made you a guide, that is, He made your knowledge of you a proof of your knowledge of Him. Either in some way He described you with what He described Himself with in terms of attributes, and He made you a vicegerent on behalf of Him in His land, or because of what you are lacking in your existence. As for the two things together, it is necessary and we saw God saying in the knowledge of God. Expressed by knowledge, We will show them Our signs in the horizons and in themselves, until it becomes clear to them that it is the truth. We did not know whether he gives consideration to what is outside us from the world and he is


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