Al-Ghazali
Persian philosopher, theologian, jurist and mystic of Sunni Islam (c. 1056 to 1111); taught at the Nizamiyya Madrasa in Baghdad until 1095 and in Nishapur from 1106; author of Deliverance from Error.
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The many beliefs, religions and sects that divide people are like a sea of shipwrecks that few escape unharmed
Know then, my brothers (may God direct you in the right way), that the diversity in beliefs and religions, and the variety of doctrines and sects which divide men, are like a deep ocean strewn with shipwrecks, from which very few escape safe and sound.
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The many beliefs, religions and sects that divide people are like a sea of shipwrecks that few escape unharmed
Know then, my brothers (may God direct you in the right way), that the diversity in beliefs and religions, and the variety of doctrines and sects which divide men, are like a deep ocean strewn with shipwrecks, from which very few escape safe and sound.
The Confessions of Al Ghazzali (Deliverance from Error) (tr. Claud Field, 1909) Said c. 1106–1111
Knowledge that is not immune to doubt deserves no confidence and cannot count as certainty
I then understood that all forms of knowledge which do not unite these conditions (imperviousness to doubt, etc.) do not deserve any confidence, because they are not beyond the reach of doubt, and what is not impregnable to doubt cannot constitute certitude.
The Confessions of Al Ghazzali (Deliverance from Error) (tr. Claud Field, 1909) Said c. 1106–1111
Assuming that certainty can rest only on formal arguments wrongly limits the mercy of God
To suppose that certitude can be only based upon formal arguments is to limit the boundless mercy of God.
The Confessions of Al Ghazzali (Deliverance from Error) (tr. Claud Field, 1909) Said c. 1106–1111
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To find where the experts in a field go wrong, one must study it deeply enough to equal or surpass them
It was plain to me that, in order to discover where the professors of any branch of knowledge have erred, one must make a profound study of that science; must equal, nay surpass, those who know most of it, so as to penetrate into secrets of it unknown to them.
The Confessions of Al Ghazzali (Deliverance from Error) (tr. Claud Field, 1909) Said c. 1106–1111
Defending Islam does not require condemning the exact sciences, which religious law neither approves nor condemns
It is therefore a great injury to religion to suppose that the defence of Islam involves the condemnation of the exact sciences. The religious law contains nothing which approves them or condemns them, and in their turn they make no attack on religion.
The Confessions of Al Ghazzali (Deliverance from Error) (tr. Claud Field, 1909) Said c. 1106–1111
A truth stays true whoever holds it; people should be judged by the truth, not the truth by its holders
In a word, truth does not cease to be true because it is found among them. Such, however, is the tendency of weak minds: they judge the truth according to its professors instead of judging its professors by the standard of the truth.
The Confessions of Al Ghazzali (Deliverance from Error) (tr. Claud Field, 1909) Said c. 1106–1111
Sufism consists of experience rather than definitions, and its last stage cannot be reached by instruction alone
I saw that Sufism consists in experiences rather than in definitions, and that what I was lacking belonged to the domain, not of instruction, but of ecstasy and initiation.
The Confessions of Al Ghazzali (Deliverance from Error) (tr. Claud Field, 1909) Said c. 1106–1111
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