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Religious law makes it illegal for the ignorant to drink wine, but intelligence makes it legal for the intellectual.

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Avicenna (Persian: ابن سینا )(c. 980 in Balkh, Khorasan – 1037 in Hamedan), also known as Ibn Sīnā and commonly known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna (Greek Aβιτζιανός), was an Iranian Muslim polymath and the foremost physician and philosopher of his time. He was also an astronomer, chemist, Hafiz, logician, mathematician, poet, psychologist, physician, physicist, scientist, Sheikh, soldier, statesman and theologian.

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Native Name: الحسين بن عبد الله بن سينا • ابن سینا

Alternative Names: Pūr-i Sīnā • Aboû Alî al-Hosain ibn Abdallâh ibn Sînâ, • Abitianus • Ibn Sīnā • Aboû Alî al-Hosain ibn Abdallâh ibn Sînâ • Alraaʼys Ibn sīnā

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