By: Al-Ghazali, a Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic of Persian descent.<\/p>\n
Know that the #body<\/a> is like a town and the intellect of the mature human being is like a king ruling that town. All the forces of the external and internal senses he can muster are like his soldiers and his aides. * <\/span><\/p>\n Al-Ghazali writes that every person is born with a \u201cknowing pain in the #soul<\/a>\u201d resulting from a disconnection from the Ultimate #Reality<\/a>. The tragic condition of #Man<\/a> is that our eyes have been so distracted by physical things and pleasure, that we have lost the ability to see the unseen. This is why people are so unhappy: they are trying to relieve this pain in the soul by recourse to physical #pleasure<\/a>. But physical pleasure cannot relieve a pain that is essentially #spiritual<\/a>. The only answer to our condition is a pleasure which comes not from the body but from self-knowledge.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By: Al-Ghazali, a Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic of Persian descent. Know that the #body is like a town and the intellect of the mature human being is like a king ruling that town. All the forces of the external and internal senses he can muster are like his soldiers and his aides. * […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[340,36,339,342,264,287,267,65,66,69,343,345,341],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sacred-wisdom","tag-discipline-the-soul","tag-hamzayusuf","tag-imam-al-ghazali","tag-islamic-sciences","tag-islamic-spirituality","tag-islamic-wisdom","tag-self-realization","tag-self-knowledge","tag-self-love","tag-sufism","tag-sunni-theology","tag-teach-islamic-quotes","tag-well-being"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1222,"href":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/1222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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