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Deliverance from Error

A work by Al-Ghazali

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  • What korrents draws from it

    The many beliefs, religions and sects that divide people are like a sea of shipwrecks that few escape unharmed, Knowledge that is not immune to doubt deserves no confidence and cannot count as certainty, Assuming that certainty can rest only on formal arguments wrongly limits the mercy of God …

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    Al-Ghazali

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Key facts

Edition korrents quotes
tr. Claud Field, 19092
Claims on korrents
71

What korrents draws from it

korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.

  1. The many beliefs, religions and sects that divide people are like a sea of shipwrecks that few escape unharmed (opens korrents.com)1

  2. Knowledge that is not immune to doubt deserves no confidence and cannot count as certainty (opens korrents.com)1

  3. Assuming that certainty can rest only on formal arguments wrongly limits the mercy of God (opens korrents.com)1

  4. To find where the experts in a field go wrong, one must study it deeply enough to equal or surpass them (opens korrents.com)1

  5. Defending Islam does not require condemning the exact sciences, which religious law neither approves nor condemns (opens korrents.com)1

  6. A truth stays true whoever holds it; people should be judged by the truth, not the truth by its holders (opens korrents.com)1

Connections

Written by

  • Al-Ghazali

Sources

  1. The Confessions of Al Ghazzali (Deliverance from Error) (tr. Claud Field, 1909) (korrents) (opens korrents.com)
  2. The Confessions of Al Ghazzali (Deliverance from Error) (tr. Claud Field, 1909) (gutenberg.org) (opens gutenberg.org)

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