Faraid Al-Laali...from Al-Ghazali's letters

The truth about ascension, climbing higher, says: I stumbled up the ladder lame. Words have two aspects of meaning. One aspect is in indicating physical things, such as the concept of stairs and ascension. The second aspect is the indication of the meanings of corporeal objects and their spirits, either through the use of language or through metaphor and metaphor. And since the traveler seeking to...