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"يحتاج المريد إلى شيخ وأستاذ يقتدي به لا محالة ليهديه إلى سواء السبيل، فإن سبيل الدين غامض، وسبل الشيطان كثيرة ظاهرة فمن لم يكن له شيخ يهديه، قاده الشيطان إلى طرقه لا محالة. فمن سلك سبل البوادي المهلكة بغير خفير فقد خاطر بنفسه وأهلكها، ويكون المستقل بنفسه كالشجرةِ التي تنبت بنفسها فإنها تجف على القرب، وإن بقيت مدة وأورقت لم تثمر، فمعتَصَمُ المريد شيخُهُ، فليتمسك به.
["الإحياء" ج3/ص65]"
Al-Ghazali (/ˈɡɑːzɑːli/; full name Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī أبو حامد محمد بن محمد الغزالي; latinized Algazelus or Algazel, c. 1058 – 19 December 1111) was a Persian polymath. He is known as one of the most prominent and influential philosopher, theologian, jurist, logician and mystic of Islam.
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How many nights have you remained awake repeating science and poring over books, and have denied yourself sleep. I do not know what the purpose of it was. If it was attaining worldly ends and securing its vanities, and acquiring its dignities, and surpassing your contemporaries, and such like, woe to you and again woe; but if your purpose in it was the vitalizing of the Law of the Prophet, and the training of your character, and breaking the soul commanding to evil, then blessed are you and again blessed.