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People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.
Al-Ghazali
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Al-Ghazali
Born: 1058
Born: January 1
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Mutakallim
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Ghazzoliĭ
Muḣammad ibn Muḣammad ibn Aḣmad Abu Ḣomid at-Tusiĭ
Al-Ghazzali
Abu Hamid al-Ghazālī
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Algazel
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
Abu Mohammed al-Ghazali
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