The Science of Philosophy

lā li-al-ākhirah fa-qad ʻadhdhabta al-ḥayawān wa-ḍayyaʻta al-zamān , wa-ammā al-thawāb fa-ayʼas minhu wa-lā taʼman min al-ʻiqāb illā bi-matāb (١) .

( ʻilm al-ḥikmah )

al-falsafah al-ilāhīyah mā yanẓuru fīhā man yurjá falāḥuhu wa-lā yarkanu ilá iʻtiqādihā man yalūḥu najāḥuhu fa-inna hādhā al-ʻilm fī shiqq wa-mā jāʼat bihi al-rusul fī shiqq , wa-lākin ḍalāl man lam yadri mā jāʼat bihi al-rusul kamā yanbaghī bi-al-ḥikmah asharr mimman yadrī , wā-ghawthāh bi-Allāh , idhā kāna alladhīna intadabū li-al-radd ʻalá al-falāsifah qad ḥārū wa-laḥiqatʹhum kasfah fa-mā al-ẓann bi-al-mardūd ʻalayhim ! wa-mā dawāʼ hādhihi al-ʻulūm wa-ʻulamāʼuhā wa-al-qāʼimīn bihā ʻilman wa-ʻaqlan illā al-ḥarīq wa-al-iʻdām min al-wujūd idh al-dīn mā zāla kāmilan ḥattá ʻurribat hādhihi al-kutub wa-naẓara fīhā al-Muslimūn fa-law iʻtadamat la-kāna fatḥan mubīnan (١) wa-al-ḥikmah al-riyāḍīyah fīhā ḥaqq min ṭabāʼiʻ handasīyah wa-ḥisāb wa-naḥw dhālika , wa-fīhā abāṭīl min al-tanjīm wa-mā ashbahahu fa-bāṭiluhā yuʼdhī al-marʼ fī dīnihi wa-yuḍilluhu wa-ḥaqquhā ṣanʻah wa-itqān wa-taḥrīr mimmā lā ajr fīhi wa-lā wizr . wa-al-ḥikmah al-ṭabīʻīyah lā baʼs bihā lākinnahā laysat min ʻulūm al-dīn wa-lā mimmā yutaqarrabu bihi ilá Allāh taʻālá wa-lā min zād al-maʻād bal hiya ṣanʻah bi-lā thawāb wa-lā ʻiqāb idhā kāna ṣāḥibuhā salīm al-iʻtiqād ʻadlan khayran kamā raʼaynā jamāʻah minhum wa-qad yuthābu al-rajul ʻalá taʻallumihā bi-al-nīyah in shāʼa Allāh taʻālá

— al-ḥawāshī —

[25] (١) anṣafa al-muṣannif hunā baʻḍ inṣāf bi-al-qiyās ilá ārāʼ ṭāʼifah fī hādhā al-ʻilm wa-lam yaqul kamā qāla al-Suyūṭī fī sharḥ ʻUqūd al-jumān lahu : naḥnu maʻāshir ahl al-Sunnah lā nunajjisu taṣānīfanā bi-qadhar al-manṭiq h . wa-min al-gharīb anna al-Muwaffaq al-Maqdisī lammā allafa ( Rawḍat al-nāẓir ) fī uṣūl al-fiqh wa-ikhtaṣara fīhā Mustaṣfá al-Ghazālī bi-rummatihi wa-jará ʻalá tartībihi wa-ʻibāratihi kamā yaẓharu min faḥṣ al-kitābayn lakhkhaṣa muqaddimatahu al-manṭiqīyah wa-jaʻalahā muqaddimah li-kitābihi wa-intasharat nusakh al-Rawḍah ka-dhālika wa-lammā waqafa baʻḍ al-ʻalthīyīn min ahl madhhabihi ʻalá al-kitāb iḥtadda ghaḍaban wa-ʻātaba al-Muwaffaq ʻitāban murran ʻalá jaʻlihi al-manṭiq juzʼan min kitābihi fa-inṣāʻa ilayhi wa-akhadha yatruku al-muqaddimah ḥīna yaqraʼu al-kitāb ʻalayhi fa-li-dhālika tará al-muqaddimah fī nuskhah dūna nuskhah , qāla al-Najm al-Ṭūfī fī sharḥ Mukhtaṣar al-Rawḍah lahu wa-innī ahmaltu al-muqaddimat fī mukhtaṣarī li-annī lā uḥaqqiqu dhālika al-ʻilm wa-lā al-Shaykh al-Muwaffaq ayḍan kāna yuḥaqqiquhu fa-law ikhtaṣartuhā la-ẓahara al-takalluf ʻalayhā min al-jihatayn fa-lā yataḥaqqaqu al-intifāʻ bihā li-al-ṭālib wa-yaqṭaʻu ʻalayhi al-waqt fa-man arāda dhālika al-ʻilm fa-ʻalayhi bi-akhdhihi min maẓānnihi min shuyūkhihi wa-kutubihi h . wa-hākadhā yakūnu al-rajul al-ṣarīḥ . wa-man lā yulimmu bi-hādhā al-ʻilm qad yatanāqaḍu wa-lā yashʻuru wa-yatakhabbaṭu wa-lā yadrī mādhā jará wa-yabqá ḍuḥkah li-dhawī al-ʻuqūl fī al-mabāḥith al-naẓarīyah fa-huwa ʻilm yaʻṣimu ʻan al-khaṭaʼ fī al-afkār wa-lā yūthaqu bi-ʻilm man lā yaʻlamuhu ʻinda ahl al-taḥqīq .

[26] (١) hal warada fī dhālika kitāb nāṭiq aw naṣṣ min al-Rasūl ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam qāṭiʻ ḥattá taḥkuma bi-hādhā al-ḥukm al-shadīd ! bi-Allāh khalli ʻulamāʼ al-Muslimīn yaqūmūna bi-wājibihim yatawaqqawna al-ḍārr wa-yaʼkhudhūna al-nāfiʻ wa-ḍāllatuhum al-manshūdah ḥaythu wajadū , wa-innamā tasarraba al-fasād ilá shuʼūn al-Muslimīn bi-sabab al-jahl wa-al-kasal lā bi-al-ʻilm wa-al-ʻamal , naʻam man kāna sayyiʼ al-sarīrah yaqdiru an yaʻmala min al-fasād bi-ʻilmihi mā lā yaqdiru ʻalayhi al-jāhil lākin al-dhanb fī dhālika laysa ilá al-ʻilm bal ʻalá al-tahdhīb wa-al-tadrīb .