let alone their level before that. Ibn al-Qushayrī recited these verses in refutation of Ibn Sīnā’s al-Shifā’ (The Healing):

We severed the bonds of brotherhood with a people
Whom The Healing had afflicted with disease.
How often I said, “My people, you stand
On a precipice’s edge because of The Healing!”
When they dismissed our warning,
We turned to Allah until He sufficed us.
They died following the religion of Aristotle,
While we lived following the faith of the Chosen One.

If it is said:

“Something similar to the logicians’ restriction of the means of acquiring knowledge appears in the writings of Muslim speculative theologians. Indeed, some state precisely the same thing, either in the logicians’ own terms or in different wording.”

The answer is:

Not everything the speculative theologians say is true. Rather, everything the Messengers brought is true. Whatever the speculative theologians and others say that agrees with it is true, and whatever they say that contradicts it is false. The condemnation of newly introduced speculative theology by the early generations and the leading scholars is well known.

He said:

What is astonishing is that some people sought, as they claimed, to defend the revealed Law through their deficient reasoning and unsound syllogisms. Yet what they did emboldened the heretics, the enemies of religion