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The books of the Peripatetic philosophers contain no call whatsoever to worship God or to love Him. At most they say:

“Philosophy is to resemble the Deity as far as one’s capacity allows.”

In their usage, the word “deity” carries precisely that sense. As Abū al-Barakāt remarks in al-Muʿtabar, second chapter on divine science and theology:

“It appears from what is current in the speech of the ancients that the term ‘deity’ is intended to mean…”