Knowledge and faith
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
faith · knowledge · two lights · الايمان · العلم
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Letters (Greek)
But now, since the word 'knowledge' has many meanings, those who mock the simpler folk, and who display themselves alike with their paradoxes—like those who in the theatres, before the eyes of all, palm the counting-stones—snatch up the whole by a question put in general terms.
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Letters
Relationship between believing and knowing God.
But now, since the word 'knowledge' has many meanings, those who mock the simpler folk, and who display themselves alike with their paradoxes—like those who in the theatres, before the eyes of all, palm the counting-stones—snatch up the whole by a question put in general terms.
Which comes first, knowledge or faith?
To the same, on another question.
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
Knowledge and faith, the two illuminations of the heart and the prescribed remedy against wicked spirits.
(Among them) are two lights blazing in the heart by a singling out from the mercy of a merciful one, namely knowledge and faith.
And the treatment of this epilepsy is by the joining of sound intellect to faith in what the messengers brought, upon them be peace.