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Spiritual_Roadmap_by_Ghazali, page : 107
Those to whom it is not even granted to have contact with mystics may know with certainty the
possibility
of ecstasy by the evidence of demonstration, as I have remarked in the section entitled The Wonders
of the
Heart of my Revival of the Religious Sciences.
Certainty reached by demonstration is knowledge (`ilm); actual acquaintance with that state‟ is
immediate
experience (Thawq); the acceptance of it as probable from hearsay and trial or observation is faith
(iman).
These are three degrees. „Allah will raise those of you who have faith and those who
have been given
knowledge in degrees of honor‟ (Koran 58, 12).
Behind the mystics, however, there is a crowd of ignorant people. They deny this fundamentally,
they are
astonished at this line of thought, they listen and mock. `Amazing‟, they say. `What
nonsense they talk!‟
About such people Allah Most High has said: „Some of them listen to you, until, upon going out from
possibility
of ecstasy by the evidence of demonstration, as I have remarked in the section entitled The Wonders
of the
Heart of my Revival of the Religious Sciences.
Certainty reached by demonstration is knowledge (`ilm); actual acquaintance with that state‟ is
immediate
experience (Thawq); the acceptance of it as probable from hearsay and trial or observation is faith
(iman).
These are three degrees. „Allah will raise those of you who have faith and those who
have been given
knowledge in degrees of honor‟ (Koran 58, 12).
Behind the mystics, however, there is a crowd of ignorant people. They deny this fundamentally,
they are
astonished at this line of thought, they listen and mock. `Amazing‟, they say. `What
nonsense they talk!‟
About such people Allah Most High has said: „Some of them listen to you, until, upon going out from