[62] Muslim.
[63] From uncanonical sayings of Christ.
[64] Quran XXXVIII. 71, 72.
[65] See Bukhari Haddis Qudsi.
[66] Al Ghazzali condemns all such expressions which are called by Cardinal Newman “eccentricities of the saints.” He is aware of their liability to abuse and points out their error in a manner which six hundred years later took the form of Bishop Butler’s dictum that reason cannot abdicate its right of judging obvious improprieties in religious doctrines and persons. “Ibn Allah”, (Son of God) refers to the orthodox Christian view of Jesus. “Anal Haq” (I am the truth, i.e. God) refers to the expression of Husain bin Mansur al Hallaj, who in 309 A.D. was crucified in Bagdad for his blasphemy. The poet Hafiz says of him: “Jurmash an bud ki asrar huwaida bikard.” (His crime was that he revealed the secrets.)
[67] St Matthew XXII 35-57. “And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him,: Master, which is the great commandment in the law? And he said unto him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.” In the above passage the law referred to is Deuteronomy VI. 5, where instead of mind, the word might is used.
[68] Daran, a village near Damascus, where he died in 215 A.H.
[69] A famous Muslim woman saint of Basrah, considered to be an authority on Sufiism. She died in 801 A. D.
[70] Quran LVII. 20 and III. 14-16.
[71] Compare Descartes’: Cogito ergo sum.