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Fahmi Jadan’s article begins by surveying a handful of prominent men who enriched Islam with extensive theoretical knowledge and ample daʿwah work, among them being Shaykh Muhammad al-Ghazali. Jadan discusses how he employed both revelation (Islamic faith) and reason in all his scientific and intellectual works, and how he rationally reconciled between exponents of ra’y (lit. opinion) and Sufism, and his zeal to affirm the concept of causality (sababiyyah) as opposed to predestination (jabriyyah), which he viewed as one of the causes of the collapse of Muslim civilization. His article also discusses the human mind (ʿaql), the reality of the spirit (rūḥ), the logic of the “realm of the unknown” (ʿālam al-ghayb) and the “realm of the evident” (ʿālam al-shāhidah). It concludes with an analysis that shows the logical, spiritual, and rational concurrence between Imam Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī and Shaykh Muhammad al-Ghazali.
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