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“ ”If you were to show a piece of intelligible writing to a reasonable person and say to him: 'do you know its writer?' and he said 'no', he would be speaking truly. But if he said 'yes: its writer is a man living and powerful, hearing and seeing, sound of hand and knowledgeable in the practise of writing, and if I know all this from [the sample] how can I not know him?-he too would be speaking truly. Yet the saying of the one who said 'I do not know him' is more correct and true, for in reality he has not known him. Rather he only knows that intelligible writing requires a living writer, knowing, powerful, hearing, and seeing; yet he does not know the writer himself. Similarly, every creature knows only that this ordered and precisely disposed world requires an arranging, living, knowing, and powerful maker.
About Al-Ghazali
Al-Ghazali (/ˈɡɑːzɑːli/; full name Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī أبو حامد محمد بن محمد الغزالي; latinized Algazelus or Algazel, c. 1058 – 19 December 1111) was a Persian polymath. He is known as one of the most prominent and influential philosopher, theologian, jurist, logician and mystic of Islam.
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Additional quotes by Al-Ghazali
Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
إذا رأيت الفقيه بضاعته فقط الفقه يخوض في التكفير والتضليل فأعرض عنه، ولا تشغل به قلبك ولسانك
"يحتاج المريد إلى شيخ وأستاذ يقتدي به لا محالة ليهديه إلى سواء السبيل، فإن سبيل الدين غامض، وسبل الشيطان كثيرة ظاهرة فمن لم يكن له شيخ يهديه، قاده الشيطان إلى طرقه لا محالة. فمن سلك سبل البوادي المهلكة بغير خفير فقد خاطر بنفسه وأهلكها، ويكون المستقل بنفسه كالشجرةِ التي تنبت بنفسها فإنها تجف على القرب، وإن بقيت مدة وأورقت لم تثمر، فمعتَصَمُ المريد شيخُهُ، فليتمسك به.
["الإحياء" ج3/ص65]"