The Improvement of Human Reason - Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan by Ibn Tufail
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word_ Albákko _signifies both, and is very often us'd for one of
the Names or Attributes of God_. Kamus. _Dr._ Pocock, Specimen pag. 168.] [Footnote 8: Abu Hamed Algazâli--_What_ Abu Hamed Algazâli _thought concerning those Men who were so wild and Enthusiastick as to use such extravagant expressions, appears plainly from those words of his quoted by_ Dr. Pocock _in his_ Specimen. p. 167, _where he says_, "People ran on to such a degree, (_of madness you may be sure_) as to pretend to an Union with God, and a fight of him without the interposition of any Veil, and familiarly discourse with him. _And a little after_, which sort of Speeches have occasion'd great mischiefs among the common People; so that some Country Fellows laying aside their Husbandry, have pretended to the same things: for Men are naturally pleas'd with such discourses, as give them a liberty to neglect their business, and withal promise them purity of Mind, and the attainment of strange degrees and proprieties. Now the most stupid Wretches in Nature may pretend to this, and have in their Mouths such false and deceitful expressions. And if any one denies what they say, they immediately tell you, that this Unbelief of yours proceeds from _Learning_ and _Logick_: and that _Learning_ is a _Veil_, and _Logick_ labour of the brain, but that these things which they affirm, are discovered only inwardly then by the _Light of the TRUTH_. And this which they affirm, has spread _it self_ through a great many Countries, and produc'd a great deal of Mischief." _Thus far_ Algazâli. _How exactly this answers the wild extravagancies of our Enthusiasts, let themselves judge. And withal I would have them from hence |
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