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Quotation from Deliverance from Error (The Confessions of al-Ghazali) by Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
“I owed my deliverance, not to a concatenation of proofs and arguments, but to the light which God caused to penetrate into my heart—the light which illuminates the threshold of all knowledge.”
Deliverance from Error (The Confessions of al-Ghazali), The Subterfuges of the Sophists, trans. Claud Field
The end of his two months of scepticism, when trust in the first principles of reason returns.
Citation: "I owed my deliverance, not to a concatenation of proofs and arguments, but to the light which God caused to penetrate into my heart—the light which illuminates the threshold of all knowledge." — Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, Deliverance from Error (The Confessions of al-Ghazali), The Subterfuges of the Sophists, trans. Claud Field. (id ghazali-deliverance-from-error-q2)
Portrait: Al-Ghazali by Khalil Gibran, Kahlil Gibran, Public domain.
