Al-Ghazali الغزالي
theologian · Persia and Baghdad in Seljuk times · 1058–1111
The most influential theologian of the Islamic world. A professor at Baghdad's leading school, he broke down at thirty-eight, gave up every post and wandered for eleven years.
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1095 (recalled c. 1108) · At thirty-eight, a professor at Baghdad's leading school, after six months of hesitation
God locked my tongue so that it was held back from teaching. I would struggle with myself to teach for a single day, to ease the hearts of those who came to me, but my tongue would not utter one word and I could not do it at all. This knot in my tongue left a grief in my heart, and with it went my power to digest and my taste for food and drink.
أقفل الله على لساني حتى اعتقل عن التدريس ، فكنت أجاهد نفسي أن أدرس يوما واحدا تطييبا لقلوب المختلفة إلي ، فكان لا ينطلق لساني بكلمة واحدة ولا أستطيعها البتة ، حتى أورثت هذه العقلة في اللسان حزنا في القلب ، بطلت معه قوة الهضم ومراءة الطعام والشرابThe autobiography Deliverance from Error (al-Munqidh min al-Dalal)
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