“They asked for Plato’s assistance. He told them: “You hated wisdom and ran away from geometry, therefore God has afflicted you a punishment, for wisdom and philosophical knowledge have a high rank with God.”... The plague was lifted and they ceased to defame the branches of theoretical knowledge.”

“They asked for Plato’s assistance. He told them: “You hated wisdom and ran away from geometry, therefore God has afflicted you a punishment, for wisdom and philosophical knowledge have a high rank with God.”... The plague was lifted and they ceased to defame the branches of theoretical knowledge.”

— Mulla Sadra