Mughtarr
Definition
The mughtarr — the deluded person — is al-Ghazali's clinical subject throughout this book: the person whose assessment of their own spiritual condition is systematically more favourable than reality warrants. He describes many types: the scholar who knows religion well but practices it poorly and mistakes the knowing for the doing; the habitual sinner who relies on divine mercy as permission rather than as gift; the outwardly religious person who has never examined the inner dimensions of their worship; and the person who confuses social respectability with genuine righteousness. Each type has their characteristic delusion, and each requires a specific intervention.
As understood in the classical tradition of Imam al-Ghazali and the scholars of his school.
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