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SpiritualRoadmapbyGhazali, page : 107
This is a sufficient discussion of the nature of prophetic revelation for my
present purpose. I proceed to speak of the need for it.
V. THE REASON FOR TEACHING AGAIN AFTER MY WITHDRAWAL FROM IT
I had persevered thus for nearly ten years in retirement and solitude. I had
come because of necessity, from reasons which I do not enumerate, partly
immediate experience, partly demonstrative knowledge, partly acceptance in
faith, to a realization of various truths.
I saw that man was constituted of body and heart; by „heart‟ I mean the real
nature of his spirit which is the seat of his knowledge of Allah, and not the flesh
and blood which he shares with the corpse and the brute beast. I saw that just as
there is health and disease in the body, respectively causing it to prosper and to
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present purpose. I proceed to speak of the need for it.
V. THE REASON FOR TEACHING AGAIN AFTER MY WITHDRAWAL FROM IT
I had persevered thus for nearly ten years in retirement and solitude. I had
come because of necessity, from reasons which I do not enumerate, partly
immediate experience, partly demonstrative knowledge, partly acceptance in
faith, to a realization of various truths.
I saw that man was constituted of body and heart; by „heart‟ I mean the real
nature of his spirit which is the seat of his knowledge of Allah, and not the flesh
and blood which he shares with the corpse and the brute beast. I saw that just as
there is health and disease in the body, respectively causing it to prosper and to
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