Shaykh al-Islām Ahmad ibn Taymiyyah—may Allah sanctify his soul—also said:

To proceed:

I had always known that an intelligent person has no need of Greek logic and that a dull-witted person gains no benefit from it. Yet I used to think its propositions were true, since we had found many of them to be true. Later, however, it became clear to me that some of its propositions were erroneous, and I wrote something on the subject.

While I was in Alexandria, someone met with me whom I found extolling the philosophers through exaggeration and blind imitation. I explained to him some of the grounds on which they deserved to be judged ignorant and misguided. This prompted me to write down some remarks on logic in a single sitting between the noon and afternoon prayers, recording them there and then. This was not, however, my main concern; my attention was devoted to what I had written against them on “metaphysics.” It became clear to me that much of what they had stated about logic lay at the root of their erroneous views on metaphysics,