1630: al-Ghazālī
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2026/02/07
“It was the effect of a light which God Most High cast into my breast. And that light is the key to most knowledge.”
“Every knowledge unaccompanied by safety from error is not sure and certain knowledge.”
“Nature is totally subject to God Most High: it does not act of itself but is used as an instrument by its Creator.”
“The door to the knowledge of God will be opened to a man first of all, when he knows his own soul.”
“That the soul is like a clean mirror, into which whenever a person looks, he may there see God.”
“The ruin of the soul consists in the predominance of some other love over the love of God, which veils the divine love.”
“Man ought to make every possible exertion to gain the knowledge of God, because the knowledge of God necessitates the love of God.”
“The necessities of the constitution of the spirit are to know God and to contemplate his beauty and excellence.”
“The stars and the constellations are subject to the angels, and the angels can do nothing without the command of God.”
“The knowledge of what [the spirit] is in reality, is the key to the knowledge of God.”
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