Ways of achieving Knowledge Certainty by Abu Hanid al Ghazali

Abstract

At any stage and circumstance, human beings have always tried to achieve real knowledge. For this purpose, he has taken different paths and methods. Ghazali points out that he has tried almost all methods and philosophical ways to achieve a kind of knowledge without doubt. Although one can know in many different ways, such as (our feelings and reason), Ghazali rejects such knowledge and believes that we cannot know everything, until eventually adopts this knowledge because of Sufism. The Sufi knowledge has no doubt, because we can achieve it from a perfect source, which is God, through the light that God pours it into the hearts that have been enlightened by the light of faith and cleansed from sins, bad actions and words. This study used both analytical and comparative methods to reach desired conclusions.

Key words: Ghazali, knowledge, Sufism, doubt, reason, certainty