Reference
1 An allusion to the advice of Ibn Sīnā at the end of hisIshārāt : “Beware that your smartness and detachment from the vulgar do not make you go on denying everything, for that is rashness and weakness. Your strong rejection of that whose clarity is not yet made evident to you is no less a mistake than your strong belief in that whose evidence does not lie in your hands. Rather you must hold on to the line of suspending judgment—even if you are disturbed by the denieal of what your hearing recognizes as true—as long as its impossibility is not demonstrable for you. Thus, it is appropriate that you relegate such a thing to thecourt of possibility , unless you have firm proof otherwise.” Cf., Shams Inati,Ibn Sīnā and Mysticism (London: Kegan Paul International, 1996), p. 107.