Logic has little benefit, but its harm is severe.
And it is not part of Islamic sciences.
The truth of it lies hidden in pure souls with strange expressions.
As for falsehood, flee from it, for you may be cut off from your opponent while knowing you are right,
or you may defeat your opponent while knowing you are wrong.
They are dazzling phrases and deceptive premises.
We ask Allah for safety.
If you study it for leisure, not for proof, and for this world, not the hereafter,
You have only exhausted yourself and wasted your time.
And Allah is the One Whose help is sought.
As for reward, give up hope of it, and do not feel safe from punishment except through repentance.
As for philosophical divine wisdom, no one who hopes for success should look into it.
And no one whose success is apparent should rely on believing in it.
For this knowledge lies in one direction, and what the messengers brought lies in another.
But the misguidance of one who does not know what the messengers brought, as he should through wisdom, is worse than that of one who knows.
O help from Allah!
If those who set out to refute the philosophers were confused and affected by gloom,
What then is expected of those they refuted?
And there is no remedy for these sciences, their scholars, and those who practice them in knowledge and belief except fire and annihilation from existence.
