It is quite clear to you that all the people see that lower… - Averroes

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It is quite clear to you that all the people see that lower kinds of creation could have been made in a different way from that in which they really are, and as they see this lower degree in many things they think that they must have been made by chance.

Averroes

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ʾAbū l-Walīd Muḥammad bin ʾAḥmad bin Rušd (14 April 1126 – 10 December 1198), known as Ibn Rushd, Latinized Averroës, was an Andalusian Muslim polymath, a great master of Aristotelian philosophy, Islamic philosophy, Islamic theology, Maliki law and jurisprudence, logic, psychology, politics and Arabic music theory, and the sciences of medicine, astronomy, geography, mathematics, physics and celestial mechanics.

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Native Name: ابن رُشد

Alternative Names: Averroës • Ibn Rushd • Averrhoes • Abū l-Walīd Muḥammad Ibn ʾAḥmad Ibn Rušd • Averrhoës

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If teleological study of the world is philosophy, and if the Law commands such a study, then the Law commands philosophy.

The texts about the future life fall into, since demonstrative scholars do not agree whether to take them in their apparent meaning or interpret them allegorically. Either is permissible. But it is inexcusable to deny the fact of a future life altogether.

The double meaning has been given to suit people's diverse intelligence. The apparent contradictions are meant to stimulate the learned to deeper study.

It is quite clear to you that all the people see that lower kinds of creation could have been made in a different way from that in which they really … - Averroes

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