The Muslim philosophers and apologists followed Aristotle’s reasoning that the world had to be eternal. But this did not sit well with Muslim theologians who pointed out that the Qur’an clearly taught that the world was created. When the philosophers were accused of heresy, they devised a trick to avoid the charge. The Muslim philosophers and apologists divided philosophy into a dichotomy in which something can be true according to “reason” and, at the same time, be false according