10 - The reformer says:

"Pure Islamic beliefs were dirtied, corrupted by the movement called 'Ilm al-kalam."

This quotation from the Russian reformer Baykiyev's book is an obvious evidence of his ignorance of Islam. How 'ilm al-kalam shed light on and served Islam can be understood by only those who studied it from within. There cannot be any use in attacking such a vast branch of knowledge with such random words. The bigots of science always attack 'ilm al-kalam in such terms as "theories" and "thoughts that cannot be experimented". They do not know that religious knowledge is learned by way of narration, one generation relating it to the next one, and that experimentation is essential in scientific knowledge. In man, the place for these two kinds of knowledge is his brain, which only thinks, judges and understands whether what he hears or does is wrong or not. However, he experiments with his limbs, not with his brain. Does this reformer know what he knows with his hands or understands through his feet?