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Quotation from Deliverance from Error (The Confessions of al-Ghazali) by Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
“To define drunkenness, to know that it is caused by vapours which rise from the stomach and cloud the seat of intelligence, is quite a different thing to being drunk.”
Deliverance from Error (The Confessions of al-Ghazali), Sufism, trans. Claud Field
Ghazali's analogy for the difference between learning about the Sufi path and walking it.
Citation: "To define drunkenness, to know that it is caused by vapours which rise from the stomach and cloud the seat of intelligence, is quite a different thing to being drunk." — Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, Deliverance from Error (The Confessions of al-Ghazali), Sufism, trans. Claud Field. (id ghazali-deliverance-from-error-q5)
Portrait: Al-Ghazali by Khalil Gibran, Kahlil Gibran, Public domain.
