In taking them, it followed the best humanistic principles of those primitive peoples.

It was distinguished by being a reformist movement whose slogan was the call to wisdom and good counsel. And that it was a comprehensive movement that renewed Islam, opened the door of ijtihad, and freed Sufism from the impurities that had attached to it, and worked to spread knowledge and writing. Nevertheless, some remnants of the eras of decline entered it from the discouraging atmosphere, so it was not possible for it to give sufficient attention to practical sciences and to bring about a radical change in the methods of thinking that characterized the eras of decline.