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SpiritualRoadmapbyGhazali, page : 105
obvious knowledge of what these men are.
Similarly, if you understand what it is to be a prophet, and have devoted much
time to the study of the Koran and the Prophetic Sayings, you will arrive at a
obvious knowledge of the fact that Muhammad, may Allah venerate him and
grant him peace, is in the highest grade of the prophetic calling. Convince
yourself of that by trying out what he said about the influence of devotional
practices on the purification of the heart, how truly he asserted that `whoever
lives out what he knows will receive from Allah what he does not know‟; how truly
he asserted that `if anyone aids an evildoer, Allah will give that man power over
him‟; how truly he asserted that `if a man rises up in the morning with but a single
care (to please Allah), Allah most high will preserve him from all cares in this
world and the next‟. When you have made trial of these in a thousand or several
thousand instances, you will arrive at obvious knowledge beyond all doubt.
By this method, then, seek certainty about the prophetic office, and not from
the transformation of a rod into a serpent or the cleaving of the moon. For if you
Similarly, if you understand what it is to be a prophet, and have devoted much
time to the study of the Koran and the Prophetic Sayings, you will arrive at a
obvious knowledge of the fact that Muhammad, may Allah venerate him and
grant him peace, is in the highest grade of the prophetic calling. Convince
yourself of that by trying out what he said about the influence of devotional
practices on the purification of the heart, how truly he asserted that `whoever
lives out what he knows will receive from Allah what he does not know‟; how truly
he asserted that `if anyone aids an evildoer, Allah will give that man power over
him‟; how truly he asserted that `if a man rises up in the morning with but a single
care (to please Allah), Allah most high will preserve him from all cares in this
world and the next‟. When you have made trial of these in a thousand or several
thousand instances, you will arrive at obvious knowledge beyond all doubt.
By this method, then, seek certainty about the prophetic office, and not from
the transformation of a rod into a serpent or the cleaving of the moon. For if you