who are hypocrites, and to the opening of the door to heresy and distortion. For their knowledge of the Prophetic hadiths, reports from the early generations, and the meanings of the Book and Sunnah is exceedingly limited, while their understanding of rational matters is utterly confused. Al-Ghazālī has said so much in condemnation of speculative theology, its practitioners, and the philosophers that it would take a long time