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win Thy favour, forgive them, O Lord, and have mercy upon them; for verily if Thou hadst revealed to them that which Thou hast revealed to me, they would not have done what they have done; and if Thou hadst hidden from me that which Thou hast hidden from them, I should not have suffered these tribulations. . Glory unto Thee in whatsoever Thou doest, and glory unto Thee in whatsoever Thou willest. ' (The verses and prayer are quoted from Islam, page 146, by Alfred Guillaum, Pelican Books Ltd. ). The Imams Abul Hasan Ashari, Abu Bakr Shibli and Abu. Othman Maghrabi, all great scholars of Islam, were also denounced as apostates, heretics and renegades. . The Fifth Century. Even the famous and renowned Imam Al-Ghazzali in Baghdad did not escape. The ulemas branded him as an atheist, free thinker and an apostate, whose books were ‘unorthodox, unIslamic', they said. His books were ordered to be burnt and. Muslims were forbidden to read them. His followers, if any, were ordered to be beheaded. . . A few centuries later, his books became what we may call the 'best sellers' in both the Muslim world and Christendom. . It is said that Al-Ghazzali's family had found a piece of paper attached to his garment in which he died; it read: 'This is not me!. This is a cage in which I lived as a bird. Now that the Lord has set me free, I have flown away. '. The Imam Ibn-i-Hazam was a great scholar whose writings and arguments traced back to the Holy Quran and Hadith, which showed the fallacies of the lesser scholars and ulemas, who banded together and got the Imam banished to die in the jungle of Labla (Spain). . The Sixth Century. Abd al-Qadir Jilani was at first a well-known jurist of exoteric. Islam, then he became the Sultan of Sufis, whose spiritual influ13