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July 16, 2010
the authentic way
If you say: What is the way to knowing God? I would say: were a small boy or an impotent person to say to us: what is to the way to know the pleasure of sexual intercourse, and to perceive its essential reality? We would say: there are two ways here: one of the is for us to describe it to you, so that you can know it; the other is to wait patiently until you experience the natural instinct of passion in yourself, and then for you to engage in intercourse, so that you experience the pleasure of sexual intercourse for yourself, and to come to know it. This second way is the authentic way, leading to the reality of knowledge.
Ghazali - Ninety-Nine Names
Posted by amin at July 16, 2010 9:26 AM