"Ibn Taymiyah also points out the close relationship between belief and action, which provides a connection
between the physical and metaphysical worlds. The mutakallimum who discuss faith in abstract terms, miss the
the practical elements which for, part of religion. It is not a coincidence he [ibn Tayamiyah] argues
that the prophets began their call to religion through worship and love of God rather than through
rational proofs."
A quote from ibn Taymiyah and his times pg. 93, from Majmu'at Tafsir.
This is similar to what as Karen Armstrong observes from Jasper, in that the Axial peoples attained
God Consciousness through acts (deeds) rather than from the top down approach of rational proofs to satisfy the soul.
