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(8) TO TURN AWAY FROM TRUTH. The most hateful thing to a debater is to reject the truth revealed to his adversary and thus he takes to deception and deceit. The Prophet prohibited dispute about useless things. He said : If a man gives up disputation in matters of unlawful things, a garden will be built for him in paradise. If a man gives up desputation in matters of truth, a house will be built up for him in the highest paradise.
God said : He is more wrongful than one who devises a lie against God and calls the truth a lie when it comes to him 29:68.
God said : Who is more wrongful that he who lies against God and trea ts the truth when it comes to him as a lie-39:33 ?

(9) ANOTHER FAULT OF DEBATE IS SHOW AND FLATTERING the people in an effort *o win their favour and to nislead them. Hypocrisy is the greatest disease with which a debater is attacked and it is a major sin.

(10) DECEPTION. Debators and compelled to deception.

These ten evils are the secret major sins arising out of debates and disputations. Besides these major offences, there arise many other guilts out of controversies leading to blows, kicks, boxing,

tearing of garments etc.

■ The learned men are of three classes. One class comprise those who ruin themselves and also ruin others. Another class make themselves fortunate and make other also fortunate. Such learned men call others towards good. The third class learned men call ruin to themselves but make others fortunate.

SECTION 5

Manners to be observed by teachers and students. These manners comprise ten duties.

(1) The first duty of a student is to keep himself free from impure habit and evil matters. Effort to acquire knowledge is the worship of mind. It purifies secret faults and takes to God. Prayer is observed by outward organs and as outward purity is not gained except by outward organs, so worship by mind, the fountain head of acquisition of knowledge, cannot be attained without the removal of bad habits and evil attributes. The

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