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ghazali: you need to let your mind walk free.
or, aql requires it, etc.
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A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF INDIA VOL.5 : KHALIQ, AHMED NIZAMI : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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“Don’t rely on your books lest you become like the People of Scripture,” because then you become susceptible to distortion. - Ibrahim al Nakha’i
Knowledge stored in books is physically separated from people, but when stored in oneself, is practiced and humanized.
al muwatta’ means the well-trodden path - shamsy’s notes on writing transforming thought
Haiku Thinking : How Limitation of Expression Expands Creative Boundaries — Studio Yorktown
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Regarding the hadith on time passing faster:
“Al-Nawawi said: what is meant by its becoming short is that there will be no barakah in it, and that the benefit that a person gets from one day, for example, will be the equivalent of the benefit that he used to get in a single hour.
Al-Haafiz said: The fact of the matter is that what it means is that
... See moreI’ll first note the Latin phrase solvitur ambulando meaning “it is solved by walking.” The phrase is attributed to both St. Augustine and the Greek philosopher, Diogenes. The sense of it, as I take it, is that when you are stuck on something, you should get up and take a walk. By the act of walking you somehow allow your mind to think more freely... See more
The Ambling Mind
related to Ghazali quote about letting the aql walk free
quote of Quss b. Sa’idah:
https://archive.org/details/e3jaz-baqillani/page/n343/mode/1up?view=theater