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Spiritual_Roadmap_by_Ghazali, page : 102
I continued at this stage for the space of ten years, and during these periods of
solitude there were
revealed to me things innumerable and unfathomable. This much I shall say about that, in order that
others
may be helped: I learned with certainty that it is above all the mystics who walk on the road of
Allah; their life
is the best life, their method the soundest method, their character the purest character; indeed,
were the
intellect of the intellectuals and the learning of the learned and the scholarship of
the scholars, who are
versed in the profundities of revealed truth, brought together in the attempt to improve the life
and character
of the mystics, they would find no way of doing so; for to the mystics all movement and all rest,
whether
external or internal, brings illumination from the light of the lamp of prophetic revelation; and
behind the light
of prophetic revelation there is no other light on the face of the earth from which
illumination may be
solitude there were
revealed to me things innumerable and unfathomable. This much I shall say about that, in order that
others
may be helped: I learned with certainty that it is above all the mystics who walk on the road of
Allah; their life
is the best life, their method the soundest method, their character the purest character; indeed,
were the
intellect of the intellectuals and the learning of the learned and the scholarship of
the scholars, who are
versed in the profundities of revealed truth, brought together in the attempt to improve the life
and character
of the mystics, they would find no way of doing so; for to the mystics all movement and all rest,
whether
external or internal, brings illumination from the light of the lamp of prophetic revelation; and
behind the light
of prophetic revelation there is no other light on the face of the earth from which
illumination may be