What would Ghazali say to those who argue that we should vote for Clinton to avoid electing Trump? I think he would liken them to "a man arrested and incarcerated by a sultan with a view to cutting off his hand or his nose, and who spent all night wondering whether he would be cut with a knife, a sword, or a razor, and neglected to devise a plan which might ward off the punishment itself"--a response that Ghazali deemed to be "the very height of folly..."
[The metaphor comes from Dhikr al-Mawt, T. J. Winter translation].
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