The Confessions of Al Ghazzali
The Confessions of Al Ghazzali
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Some astronomical pheno- mena only occur once in a thousand years ; how then can we know them by experience ? We may say the same of inspiration, which is one of the branches of intuitional knowledge. Further, the perception of things which are be- yond the attainment of reason is only one of the features peculiar to inspiration, which possesses a great number of others. The characteristic which we have mentioned is only, as it were, a drop of water in the ocean, and we have mentioned it becaus...e people experience what is analogous to it in dreams and in the sciences of medicine and astronomy. These branches of knowledge belong to the domain of prophetic miracles, and reason cannot attain to them. As to the other characteristics of inspiration, 54 HOW TO TEST PROPHETIC CLAIMS they are only revealed to adepts in Sufism and in a state of ecstatic transport. The little that we know of the nature of inspiration we owe to the kind of likeness to it which we find in sleep ; without that we should be incapable of compre- hending it, and consequently of believing in it, for conviction results from comprehension.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Some astronomical pheno- mena only occur once in a thousand years ; how then can we know them by experience ? We may say the same of inspiration, which is one of the branches of intuitional knowledge. Further, the perception of things which are be- yond the attainment of reason is only one of the features peculiar to inspiration, which possesses a great number of others. The characteristic which we have mentioned is only, as it were, a drop of water in the ocean, and we have mentioned it becaus...e people experience what is analogous to it in dreams and in the sciences of medicine and astronomy. These branches of knowledge belong to the domain of prophetic miracles, and reason cannot attain to them. As to the other characteristics of inspiration, 54 HOW TO TEST PROPHETIC CLAIMS they are only revealed to adepts in Sufism and in a state of ecstatic transport. The little that we know of the nature of inspiration we owe to the kind of likeness to it which we find in sleep ; without that we should be incapable of compre- hending it, and consequently of believing in it, for conviction results from comprehension.
What to read after The Confessions of Al Ghazzali?
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