sense the breath of the Most Merciful from the right.’ He has thus attributed to al-Ghazālī something contrary to what is stated in al-Ihyā’. Either he erred in quoting al-Ghazālī, or al-Ghazālī reported something in another book contrary to what he reported in al-Ihyā’. On either assumption, it is clear that the account he has cited is unreliable.

Second: We have already discussed what al-Ghazālī said on this subject and related matters. We have explained that these people’s deficient knowledge of the Book and Sunnah, the realities of faith, and the early generations and their statements has given rise to their manifest contradictions, religious innovations, and adherence to the path of the heretics