
HoP 145 - Frank Griffel on al-Ghazali
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The Rule of Interpretation in the Quran
Al-Azali does not write much about the afterlife and he always makes clear that we know very little about the afterlife. We read the Quran in the literal sense as long as there is no demonstrative argument that prevents us from doing so, says Hizli. He adopts this criteria of certain knowledge from the philosophical movement, from the Aristotelian movement. And I guess as an Asha said he would think that God could send everyone to paradise or everyone to hell anyway. So of course he's not in a position to think that.
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