Al-Ghazali

ABU HAMID MUHAMMAD AL-GHAZALI

Al-Ghazali
Books

The Faith and Practice of Al-Ghazali.

DELIVERANCE FROM ERROR AND ATTACHMENT TO THE LORD OF MIGHT AND MAJESTY

"I proceeded . . . to reflect on sense-perception and on necessary truths . . . The outcome . . . was that I could no longer trust sense-perception . . . . Perhaps only those intellectual truths which are first principles (or derived from first principles) are to be relied upon, such as the assertion that ten are more than three, that the same thing cannot be both affirmed and denied at one time, that one thing is not both generated in time and eternal, nor both existent and non-existent, nor both necessary and impossible.’"^1a DESCARTES BRENTANO

"The intelligent man follows ‘Ali . . . when he said, ‘Do not know the truth by the men, but know the truth, and then you will know who are truthful.’"^1b

"Just as intellect is one of the stages of human development in which there is an ‘eye’ which sees the various types of intelligible objects, which are beyond the ken of senses, so prophecy also is the description of a stage in which there is an eye endowed with light such that in that light the unseen and other supra-intellectual objects become visible. . . "^1c

THE BEGINNING OF GUIDANCE

"Whenever you see in the mosque someone selling something, say: ‘God make your trafficking unprofitable.'"^1d NEW TESTAMENT

"The devil is always trying to entice fools to evil, presented in the guise of good. Do not become a laughing-stock for the Devil and have him scoff at you."^1e KRAMER & SPRENGER

"The unlawful includes even the property of the man of whom you know that the major part of his wealth is quite unlawful . . . "^1f


	The Faith and Practice of Al-Ghazali. Translated by W. Montgomery Watt. SEARCH BUY IT

	W. Montgomery Watt. The Faith and Practice of Al-Ghazali. Chicago, IL: Kazi Publications Inc., 1982. SEARCH BUY IT

The Incoherence of the Philosophers.

Al-Ghazali. The Incoherence of the Philosophers. A parallel English-Arabic text. Translated, Introduced and Annotated by Michael E. Marmura, The Islamic Translation Series. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 2000.

Al-Ghazzali On Love, Longing and Contentment.

Al-Ghazzali On Love, Longing and Contentment. Translated by Muhammad Nur Abdus Salam. Introduction by Laleh Bakhtiar. Series Editor Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Great Books of the Islamic World, 2003.

* Italics in the original.

W. Montgomery Watt. The Faith and Practice of Al-Ghazali. Chicago, IL: Kazi Publications Inc., 1982.
^a Chp II. Preliminaries: Scepticism and Denial of All Knowledge, at 23.
^b Chp III. The Classes of Seekers, at 39-40.
^c Chp IV. The True Nature of Prophecy and the Compelling Need of all Creation for it, at 65.
^d Part I. Acts of Obedience, at 100..
^e Part II. The Avoidance of Sins, at 136.
^f Ibid., at 139.

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