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May one study logic?
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May one study logic?
Introduction · jawāz al-ishtighāl bih · p. 21
جَوَازُ الِاشْتِغَالِ بِهِ
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Arabic text after the print of Jakarta 1434/2013 · translation by The Mantiqi, draft
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al-Sullam al-munawraq السُّلَّمُ الْمُنَوْرَقُ
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Akhḍarī (d. 983/1575)
- Text
- Arabic, transcribed by The Mantiqi from this print: Mutūn al-manṭiq wa-l-ḥikma: Īsāghūjī wa-l-Sullam al-munawraq, Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyya, Jakarta 1434/2013, pp. 20–32 View the scan
- Lessons follow
- The lessons are The Mantiqi's own explanations, chapter by chapter of the text itself.
- Translation
- The Mantiqi's own; a draft.
- Review
- Draft, awaiting review by Ustadh Muhammad Yusuf.
The text
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Arabic original, Mutūn al-manṭiq wa-l-ḥikma: Īsāghūjī wa-l-Sullam al-munawraq, Jakarta 1434/2013
وَالْخُلْفُ فِي جَوَازِ الِاشْتِغَالِبِهِ عَلَى ثَلَاثَةٍ أَقْوَالِ
فَابْنُ الصَّلَاحِ وَالنَّوَاوِي حَرَّمَاوَقَالَ قَوْمٌ يَنْبَغِي أَنْ يُعْلَمَا
There is disagreement about whether one may busy oneself with it, in three views: Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ and al-Nawawī forbade it; some said it ought to be learnt;
Google Translate ↗p. 21
وَالْقَوْلَةُ الْمَشْهُورَةُ الصَّحِيحَهْجَوَازُهُ لِكَامِلِ الْقَرِيحَهْ
مُمَارِسِ السُّنَّةِ وَالْكِتَابِلِيَهْتَدِي بِهِ إِلَى الصَّوَابِ
and the well-known, correct view is that it is permitted for someone of sound mind who is practised in the Sunna and the Book, so that he is guided by it to what is right.
Google Translate ↗p. 21
The lesson
Before teaching the Sullam asks whether it may be studied at all, and gives three views. Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ and al-Nawawī forbade it; others said that it ought to be learnt; and the well-known, correct view is that it is permitted for someone of sound mind who is practised in the Qurʾān and the Sunna.
Commentators explain that the prohibition concerned the of the early translations, mixed with the doctrines of the philosophers; the logic that al-Akhḍarī teaches, purified of those doctrines and serving the religious sciences, is the kind that later scholars such as al-Ghazālī held to be a tool everyone should know. The condition in the third view matters: one should come to logic grounded in the Book and the Sunna, so that it guides to what is right and does not lead astray.
Terms
- الِاشْتِغَالُ al-ishtighāl
- busying oneself with a science
- الْقَرِيحَةُ al-qarīḥa
- natural gift, intelligence
- مُمَارِسُ السُّنَّةِ وَالْكِتَابِ mumāris al-sunna wa-l-kitāb
- practised in the Sunna and the Book
Examples
فَابْنُ الصَّلَاحِ وَالنَّوَاوِي حَرَّمَا
Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ and al-Nawawī forbade it
Kendini sına
3 questions on this lesson. With 6 out of 10 or more (two stars) the next lesson opens.
Soru 1
How many views on studying logic does the Sullam give?
Three: forbidden, recommended, and the well-known view that it is permitted with a condition.
Soru 2
According to the well-known, correct view, for whom is the study of logic permitted?
The poem says it is permitted for one of sound mind who is practised in the Sunna and the Book, so that it guides him to what is right.
Soru 3
Which two scholars does the poem name as forbidding it?
Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ and al-Nawawī are named for the first view.
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