I like it how he starts the whole work with a motivation to explain why he wrote it, how existing work on the subjects covered differ from his work etc | True knowledge is at the foundation of everything, and religious knowledge being used to manipulate people by what al Ghazali calls the "learned" of this world or "the reprehensible scholars" is what Islam and other religions have been suffering from for quite a while |
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Reading this also will make you a skinnier and healthier person | I like it how he starts the whole work with a motivation to explain why he wrote it, how existing work on the subjects covered differ from his work etc |
It sets the blueprint as it were for the rest of the 40 books | |
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Currently, I'm digesting the chapters about arrogance, the signs, the cures etc | True knowledge is at the foundation of everything, and religious knowledge being used to manipulate people by what al Ghazali calls the "learned" of this world or "the reprehensible scholars" is what Islam and other religions have been suffering from for quite a while |