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The ten principles of a science
al-mabādiʾ al-ʿashara
المَبَادِئ العَشَرَة
The ten principles (al-mabādiʾ al-ʿashara) are the ten things a student should know about a science before studying it: its definition, subject, fruit, merit, relation to other sciences, founder, name, source, ruling and questions.
Explanation
For logic: its subject is known conceptions and assents insofar as they lead to the unknown; its fruit is protecting the mind from error in thinking.
On its ruling, later primers such as the Sullam record three positions: some forbade it, some recommended it, and the view they favour permits it to one of sound mind who is grounded in the Qurʾān and Sunna.
Also written as: mabadi ashara, ten principles.
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