Al-Ghazzali on Human Knowledge
According to ibn Khallikan (d. 681 A.H. / 1282 C.E.) in his famous biographical work, Wafayat al-A‛yan wa Anba’ Abna’ al-Zaman, in this month, 900 years ago, departed one of Islam’s most eminent and influential scholars, Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazzali. True to what al-Ghazzali had once reminded, “a man’s second life in this world consists in…