Al-Ghazālī insists:
> Whoever does not know his own soul, practices a borrowed morality.
A person must understand:
when desire takes control,
where anger comes from,
how love of the world quietly shapes decisions.
Without this self-knowledge, morality becomes acting a role, not real character.
? Iḥyāʾ ʿUlūm al-Dīn, Book: Training the Soul (Riyāḍat al-Nafs)
















