I was not ashamed to ask whatever I did not know.

Excerpt

They asked the Imam and spiritual guide—Muhammad bin Muhammad Ghizali (may the mercy of God be upon him!)—by what means he had attained such a degree of learning. He replied, “In this way: I was not ashamed to ask whatever I did not know.”

Source Gulistan, Chapter VIII, §6 · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to Saadi, in the Gulistan, the great scholar Ghazali explained all his learning by a single habit: never being ashamed to ask about what he did not know. Today, dare to ask at least one question about something you do not understand, simply, without pretending to know.

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