A-7.2: Unlawful Knowledge

Unlawful knowledge includes:

1- learning sorcery (dis: p-3), since according to the most reliable position, it is unlawful, as the vast majority of scholars have decisively stated:

2- philosophy (dis:w-10);

3- magic (Sha`badha, meaning sleight of hand, etc.);

4- astrology (dis:p-41);

5- the sciences of the materialists (dis:w-11).

6- and anything that is a means to create doubts (n: in eternal truths), Such things vary in their degree of unlawfulness.