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Spiritual_Roadmap_by_Ghazali, page : 29
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 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.
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 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.