Meanings of philosophy

People''s interest in philosophy bears evidence of alertness and shaking off the dust of laziness and stagnation from their minds. Philosophy accompanied Islamic civilization at its peak, to the point that Abu Ya''qub al-Kindi, the Arab philosopher, described it in his letter to the Caliph al-Mu''tasim Billah in The First Philosophy, saying: The highest status of human industries, and the most hon...