Al-Ghazālī

Al-Ghazālī (c. 1058-1111)

"The keys of hearts are in God's hand; He opens hearts when He wills, as He wills, and how He wills."

• From The Niche of Lights by Al Ghazālī, translated by David Buchman. Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1998.

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Al-Ghazālī

Al-Ghazālī (c. 1058-1111)

"With your question you have climbed a difficult slope, one before whose upper regions the eyes of the observers fall back. You have knocked at a locked door that is not to be opened except for the firmly rooted possessors of knowledge."

• From The Niche of Lights by Al Ghazālī, translated by David Buchman. Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1998.

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Al-Ghazālī

Al-Ghazālī (c. 1058-1111)

"Know that the low, dense, imaginal world became for the prophets a glass, a niche for lights, a purifier of the mysteries, and a ladder to the highest world."

• From The Niche of Lights by Al Ghazālī, translated by David Buchman. Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1998.

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Al-Ghazālī

Al Ghazālī (Sufi Theologian and Philosopher, 1058-1111 CE)

"The outward eye derives from the world of sensation and visibility, while the inward eye derives from another world--namely, the world of dominion."

• From The Niche of Lights by Al Ghazālī, translated by David Buchman. Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1998.

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Al Ghazālī

Al Ghazālī (Sufi Theologian and Philosopher, 1058-1111 CE)

"The final end of the creatures' ascent is the kingdom of singularity. Beyond it, there is no place to climb."

• From The Niche of Lights by Al Ghazālī, translated by David Buchman.

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Al-Ghazālī

Al-Ghazālī (1058-1111 CE)

"The rational faculty is a sample of the light of God."

• From Al-Ghazālī's The Niche of Lights translated by David Buchman.

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Al-Ghazali

Al-Ghazali (1058-1111 CE)

"Each thing has two faces; a face toward itself, and a face toward its Lord. Viewed in terms of the face of itself, it is nonexistent; but viewed in terms of the face of God, it exists."

• From Al-Ghazali's The Niche of Lights translated by David Buchman.

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Al-Ghazali

Al-Ghazali (1058-1111 CE)

"One does not point to the light of the sun but, rather, to the sun. In the obvious sense of this example, everything in existence is related to God just as light is related to the sun."

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