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SpiritualRoadmapbyGhazali, page : 35
I therefore said to myself: “Firstly, what I want is the knowledge of the reality of
affairs, so I should seek the reality of knowledge and what it is.” It became clear
to me that certain knowledge is so clear that it has no doubt and that no errors or
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assumptions will be subject to it and that the heart cannot even evaluate such a
supposition. Certain knowledge must also be infallible; and this infallibility or
safety from error is such that no attempt to show the falsity of the knowledge
even if challenged by a person who turns stones into gold or a rod into a serpent.
This should not have any impact of doubt on the reality.
And if I knew that ten is more than three and suppose someone told me, “No,
three is more than ten, and in proof of that I shall change this rod into a serpent”
and goes and does so and I see this for myself. I will doubt my knowledge and
all that I will have is a wonder as to how he was able to do what he did. As for
the doubt of what I knew, it will not happen.
affairs, so I should seek the reality of knowledge and what it is.” It became clear
to me that certain knowledge is so clear that it has no doubt and that no errors or
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assumptions will be subject to it and that the heart cannot even evaluate such a
supposition. Certain knowledge must also be infallible; and this infallibility or
safety from error is such that no attempt to show the falsity of the knowledge
even if challenged by a person who turns stones into gold or a rod into a serpent.
This should not have any impact of doubt on the reality.
And if I knew that ten is more than three and suppose someone told me, “No,
three is more than ten, and in proof of that I shall change this rod into a serpent”
and goes and does so and I see this for myself. I will doubt my knowledge and
all that I will have is a wonder as to how he was able to do what he did. As for
the doubt of what I knew, it will not happen.