REVIVAL OF RELIGIOUS LEARNINGS
IMAM GHAZZALI'S
IHYA ULUM-ID-DIN
Translated by
FAZL-UL-KARIM
Published by
DARUL-ISHAAT
Urdu Bazar, Karachi
Pakistan - Phone : 213768Vol-I KNOWLEDGE 3
Publisher
DARUL-ISHAAT
URDU BAZAR KARACHI-PAKISTAN.
Tel : 213768 - 2631861
First Edition : 1993
About the Book
The book is the English version of Imam Ghazzali’s Ihya
Ulum-ud-Din. It deals with worship and divine service.
Composing at; KODWAVI COMPOSING CENTRE Imam Abu-Hamid al-Ghazzali is unquestionably the
Pakistan Chowk, Karachi. greatest theologian of Islam and one of its noblest and most
original thinkers. He was born in 1058 A.D. at Tus, wherehe died
in 1111, He reproduced in his religious experience all the
spiritual phases developed by Islam.
Starting his relgious life as orthodox, Al-Ghazzali soon
DISTRIBUTORS : turned Sufi, and when still under twenty he had broken with all
Bait-ul-Quran Urdu Bazar Karachi-1 the past. In 1091 he was appointed lecturer at the Nizamiyah in
Idara Tul Ma‘arif, Darul Uloom Korangi Karachi-14 Baghdad, where he became a sceptic. Four year later he returned
Maktaba Darul Uloon Darul Uloom Korangi Karachi-14 to Sufism after a terrific spiritual struggle that left him a physical
Idara Tul Quran 437/D, G.E. Lasbella Karachi-5 wreck. Intellectualism had failed him. As a dervish he roamed
Idara-e-Islamiat 190 Anar Kali Lahore. from place to place enjoying peace of soul and acquiescence of
mind. After about twelve years of retirement in various places,
also available at:— including two years of retreat in Syria and a holy pilgrimage, he
a returned to Baghdad to preach and teach. There he composed his
Siddiqui Pa ca anzar Apariments masterpiece Iyha Ulum-id-Din (the revivification of the sciences
- of religion).
The mysticism of this work vitalized the law its orthodoxy
Printed At: leavened the doctrine of Islam. In it and such other works of his
AHMAD PRINTING CORPORATION KARACHI. as Fatihat-al-Ulum, Tahafut of Falasifah, Iqtisad fi-al-Itiqad,
orthodox speculation reached its culminating point.THE BOOK OF WORSHIP
CONTENTS
Preface
Preface of Imam Gazzali
CHAPTERI Acquisition of Knowledge
Excellence of Learning
Praiseworthy and blameworthy learnings
FourImams
Meanings of some words now changed
Manners to be observed by teachers and students
Signs of the learned of the Hereafter
Intellect and its noble nature
CHAPTERII Foundation of Belief
Proof of belief
Attributes and actions of God
Rules of articles of belief
CHAPTERIII Mysteries of Cleanliness
Purification from impurites
Purification of body and mind
Clieansing the external Bodily growths
CHAPTERIV _ Secrets of prayer
Stories of prayer of God fearing men
Merits of Jumma Prayer
Optional prayers
CHAPTERV Secrets of Zakat and charities
Some subtle rules of Zakat
Merits of optional Charity
CHAPTERVI _ Secrets of Fasting
Optional fasts and its rules
CHAPTERVII _ Secrets of Pilgrimage
Tensecret things of Haj
CHAPTER VIII Excellence of the Quran
External and internal rules of reciting
Individual Interpretation
CHAPTER IX Zikr and Invocations
Rules of invocations
Invocations of sages
CHAPTER X Actions after division of Times
Merits of Night Prayer
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