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Love for God is the farthest reach of all stations, the sun of the highest degrees, and there is no station after that of love, except its fruit and its consequences.

Al-Ghazali

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Al-Ghazali
Born: 1058
Born: January 1
Autobiographer
Mutakallim
Philosopher
Theologian
Ghazzoliĭ
Muḣammad ibn Muḣammad ibn Aḣmad Abu Ḣomid at-Tusiĭ
Al-Ghazzali
Abu Hamid al-Ghazālī
Algazelus
Algazel
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
Abu Mohammed al-Ghazali
Al-Gonzzali
Ghonzzali
Reach
Farthest
Except
Station
Highest
Stations
Love
Consequences
Fruit
Consequence
Degrees
Sun

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