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Four years later at 37 years of age, he met a crisis; it had physical
symptoms but it was primarily spiritual and religious. He came to feel that
the one thing that mattered was avoidance of Hell and attainment of
Paradise, and he saw that his present way of life was too worldly to have
any hope of eternal reward.
After a severe inner struggle, he left Baghdad to take up the life of a
wandering abstinent. Though later he returned to the task of teaching, the
change that occurred in him at this crisis was permanent. He was now a
spiritual and religious man, not just a worldly teacher of religious sciences.
He died at Tus in 505 (1111).
The first of the books he wrote upon his return, presented freely here for
your consumption, is the source for much of what we know about al-
Ghazali‟s life. It is spiritually autobiographical, yet not exactly an
autobiography. It presents us with an intellectual analysis of his spiritual
growth and also offers arguments that proof that there is human spiritual
apprehension that is heavenly guided and higher than rational
apprehension, namely that of the Prophets when Allah revealed truths to
symptoms but it was primarily spiritual and religious. He came to feel that
the one thing that mattered was avoidance of Hell and attainment of
Paradise, and he saw that his present way of life was too worldly to have
any hope of eternal reward.
After a severe inner struggle, he left Baghdad to take up the life of a
wandering abstinent. Though later he returned to the task of teaching, the
change that occurred in him at this crisis was permanent. He was now a
spiritual and religious man, not just a worldly teacher of religious sciences.
He died at Tus in 505 (1111).
The first of the books he wrote upon his return, presented freely here for
your consumption, is the source for much of what we know about al-
Ghazali‟s life. It is spiritually autobiographical, yet not exactly an
autobiography. It presents us with an intellectual analysis of his spiritual
growth and also offers arguments that proof that there is human spiritual
apprehension that is heavenly guided and higher than rational
apprehension, namely that of the Prophets when Allah revealed truths to