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 ' . . . 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
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