Tim’s Reviews > Al-Ghazali on the Ninety-nine Beautiful Names of God > Status Update

For knowledge consists in a form in the soul corresponding to the thing known. The knowledge which God - great and glorious - has of the form is the cause of the form's existing in individuals, while the form existing in individuals is the cause of the the cognitive form's being realized in the heart of man.

...it is necessary for the one who would contemplate the attributes of God most high to have emptied his heart of desiring anything except God - great and glorious." (32)