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“The Censure of Wealth and Miserliness” is Book 27 of the “Revival of the Religious Sciences”, which is al-Ghazali’s magisterial compendium consisting of 40 volumes on 40 different aspects of Islamic belief, practice, ethics, and worldview. Al-Ghazali writes that wealth is the principal pillar of this world, and the more wealth we have, the more…
This text has long been recognized as not only an Islamic classic, but also as a great spiritual autobiography of one of the world’s greatest religious thinkers. It is the narrative of how one dedicated seeker of true knowledge and salvation, having probed various systems of thought and differing paths of learning and enlightenment, discovered…
Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali’s ‘Deliverance from Error and Attachment to the Lord of Might and Majesty’ successfully allows the reader a concise, and informative window into the life of a great scholar. Deliverance from Error, translated from the Arabic ‘al Munqidh min ad-Dalal’ by W. Montgomery Watt, is an autobiographical account of Ghazali’s struggle during…
The spiritual life in Islam begins with riyadat al-nafs, the inner warfare against the ego. Distracted and polluted by worldliness, the lower self has a tendency to drag the human creature down into arrogance and vice. Only by a powerful effort of will can the sincere worshipper achieve the purity of soul which enables him to…
Al-Ghazali on Invocations and Supplications is a translation of the ninth chapter of the Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din). This chapter falls in the sections dealing with the requirement of religion. The present volume is probably the most widely read compendium of such material, popular not only for its comprehensiveness and beauty, but also for…
Al-Ghazali on Proper Conduct for the Recitation of the Qur’an is the eighth chapter of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali’s magnum opus, the Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya’ ‘ulum al-din), a monumental work of classical Islam written by the renowned theologian-mystic Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d. 1111). This chapter of the Revival deals with the fundamental importance…
Al—Ghazali on Proper Conduct when Listening to Music and the Experience of Ecstasy is the eighteen chapter of the Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya’ ‘ulum al—din), a monumental work of classical Islam written by the renowned theologian—mystic Abu Hamid al—Ghazali (d. 1111). This chapter of the Revival deals with the controversial topic of music. In the Islamic legal tradition,…
The Censure of This World (Kitab Dhamm al-dunya) Book 26 of The Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya’ ‘ulum al-din) 200 pp. Translated by Matthew Ingalls The Censure of This World is book 26 of the forty books of the Revival of the Religious Sciences (Iḥyāʾ ʿulūm al-dīn). It is the first of five books…
AL-GHAZALI’s adapted summary of Ihya Ulum al-Din – The Forty Principles of the Religion THE FORTY PRINCIPLES OF THE RELIGION is a comprehensive distillation of Imam al-Ghazali’s magnum opus, Ihya Ulum ad-Din (The Revival of the Religious Sciences), in which he explores the spiritual depth of virtually every aspect of Islam. This condensed work presents…
A classic selection of Imam al-Ghazali’s work that outlines the fulfillment to the spirit from inner dimensions of worship.
Allah has granted humanity with both external and internal sense with qualities like peculiar to himself, knowledge, power of generalization, the conception of abstract the idea, possession of intellectual truth, etc. The book presents Imam Ghazzali’s approach towards the lifting of the veil from the eyes of the heart to see the mysterious relations between…
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