فإنَّ العبدَ صعيفٌ ، والزَّمانُ صعبٌ ، وأمرُ الدِّينِ متراجعٌ ، والفراغ قليلٌ ، والشُّغلُ كثيرٌ ، والعمرُ قصيرٌ ، وفي العملِ تقصيرٌ ، والنَّاقدُ بصيرٌ ، وإلى اللَّهِ المصيرُ ، وال… - Al-Ghazali

If you were to show a piece of intelligible writing to a reasonable person and say to him: 'do you know its writer?' and he said 'no', he would be speaking truly. But if he said 'yes: its writer is a man living and powerful, hearing and seeing, sound of hand and knowledgeable in the practise of writing, and if I know all this from [the sample] how can I not know him?-he too would be speaking truly. Yet the saying of the one who said 'I do not know him' is more correct and true, for in reality he has not known him. Rather he only knows that intelligible writing requires a living writer, knowing, powerful, hearing, and seeing; yet he does not know the writer himself. Similarly, every creature knows only that this ordered and precisely disposed world requires an arranging, living, knowing, and powerful maker.

People only see the outward, while God sees both the outer and the inner man. He who really believes this will have both his outer and inner being well disciplined. If he disbelieve it, he is an infidel, and if, while believing it, he acts contrary to that belief, be is guilty of the grossest.

المطلب أنفس وأعز من أن يدرك بالمنى أو ينال بالهوينا