-
SpiritualRoadmapbyGhazali, page : 59
the heavens or in the earth‟ (Koran 34, 3).
(c) They say that the world is everlasting, without beginning or end. But no
Muslim has adopted any such view on this question.
On the further points-their denial of the attributes of Allah, their doctrine that
Allah knows by His essence and not by a knowledge which is over and above His
essence, and the like-their position approximates to that of the Mu‟tazilah; and
the Mu‟tazilah must not be accounted infidels because of such matters. In my
book, The Decisive Criterion for distinguishing Islam from Heresy, I have
presented the grounds for regarding as corrupt the opinion of those who hastily
pronounce a man an infidel if he deviates from their own system of doctrine.
5. POLITICS. All their discussion of this is based on considerations of worldly
and governmental advantage. These they borrow from the Divine scriptures
revealed through the prophets and from the maxims handed down from the
saints of old.
6. ETHICS. Their whole discussion of ethics consists in defining the
(c) They say that the world is everlasting, without beginning or end. But no
Muslim has adopted any such view on this question.
On the further points-their denial of the attributes of Allah, their doctrine that
Allah knows by His essence and not by a knowledge which is over and above His
essence, and the like-their position approximates to that of the Mu‟tazilah; and
the Mu‟tazilah must not be accounted infidels because of such matters. In my
book, The Decisive Criterion for distinguishing Islam from Heresy, I have
presented the grounds for regarding as corrupt the opinion of those who hastily
pronounce a man an infidel if he deviates from their own system of doctrine.
5. POLITICS. All their discussion of this is based on considerations of worldly
and governmental advantage. These they borrow from the Divine scriptures
revealed through the prophets and from the maxims handed down from the
saints of old.
6. ETHICS. Their whole discussion of ethics consists in defining the