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What are three examples of philosophers' interpretations other than the interpretation of prayer and zakat, and is Aristotle considered one of the philosophers?

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Philosophers interpret the angel as the active intellect, Satan as the instinctive, lustful soul, and the spirit as the rational soul. One can refer to the book "The Crime of Corrupt Interpretation Against Islamic Creed" by Dr. Muhammad Ahmad Nuh for further benefit. Among the invalid interpretations mentioned in the book "Miracles and the Unseen: Between the Insights of Revelation and the Darkness of Denial and Interpretation" by Dr. Abd al-Fattah Ibrahim Salama are: interpreting Noah's Ark as religion, its lifespan as the duration of the Sharia's survival, the hoopoe as a soldier gathering information, and the ant as weak people. As for Aristotle, he is one of the most famous Greek philosophers and a student of Plato. His books were translated into Arabic during the Abbasid era and were a cause for the emergence of theological innovations.

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