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How, then, would the best generation (the Companions) of this ummah have less knowledge and wisdom (ie: about Allah and the rulings concerning His verses and Names) than those who are debased in comparison to them (ie: people of philosophical rhetoric)?
ثُمَّ كَيْفَ يَكُونُ خَيْرُ قُرُونِ الْأُمَّةِ أَنْقَصَ فِي الْعِلْمِ وَالْحِكْمَةِ - لَا سِيَّمَا الْعِلْمُ بِاَللَّهِ وَأَحْكَامِ أَسْمَائِهِ وَآيَاتِهِ - مِنْ هَؤُلَاءِ الْأَصَاغِرِ بِالنِّسْبَةِ إلَيْهِمْ؟

How would these young (infantile) dabblers in philosophy, the followers of the al-Hind (ie: Indian) and al-Yūnān (ie: the Greek philosophers), these inheritors of the al-Majūs wa ʿl-Mushrikīn (ie: the magians and the polytheists), the inheritors of those most misguided among the al-Yahūd (ie: Jews), al-Naṣṣārá (ie: Christians) and Sabeans and those of their likeness,
أَمْ كَيْفَ يَكُونُ أَفْرَاخُ الْمُتَفَلْسِفَةِ وَأَتْبَاعُ الْهِنْدِ وَالْيُونَانِ وَوَرَثَةُ الْمَجُوسِ وَالْمُشْرِكِينَ وَضُلَّالِ الْيَهُودِ وَالنَّصَارَى وَالصَّابِئِينَ وَأَشْكَالُهُمْ وَأَشْبَاهُهُمْ:

(How would these foul later-generation philosophers) have more knowledge about Allah, than the warathah al-anbiyāʾ wa Ahl al-Qurʾān wa ʿl-Īmān (ie: inheritors of the Prophets and the People of the Qurʾān and faith)?
أَعْلَمَ بِاَللَّهِ مِنْ وَرَثَةِ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ وَأَهْلِ الْقُرْآنِ وَالْإِيمَانِ

Ibn Taymiyyah, Majmūʿ al-Fatāwá 5/12
ابن تيمية، مجموع الفتاوى ٥/١٢
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