"Al-Kattani was asked as he drew near death: 'What were your works?' And he replied, 'Were it not for the imminence of my demise I would not tell you. I stood at the door to my heart for forty years, and whenever that which was not God [ghayr Allah] passed by it I denied it entry.' "
Al-Ghazali "Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife," TJ Winter trans, page 94
