Ihya'ul ulum al-din, "Revival of Religious Sciences", Ghazali's most important work! The book is the English version of Imam Ghazzali's Ihya Ulum-ud-Din.. It deals with worship and divine service.
Imam Abu-Hamid al-Ghazzali is unquestionably the greatest theologian of Islam and one of its noblest and most original thinkers. He was born in 1058 A.D. at Tus, where he died in 1111. He reproduced in his religious experience all the spiritual phases developed by Islam.
Starting his religious life as orthodox, Al-Ghazzali soon turned Sufi, and when still under twenty he had broken with all the past. In 1091 he was appointed lecturer at the Nizamiyah in Baghdad, where he became a skeptic. Four year later he returned to Sufism after a terrific spiritual struggle that left him a physical wreck. Intellectualism had failed him. As a dervish he roamed from place to place enjoying peace of soul and acquiescence of mind. After about twelve years of retirement in various places, including two years of retreat in Syria and a holy pilgrimage, he returned to Baghdad to preach and teach. There he composed his masterpiece lhya Ulum-id-Din (the revivification of the sciences of religion).The mysticism of this work vitalized the law its orthodoxy leavened the doctrine of Islam. In it and such other works of his Fatihat-al-Ulum, Tahafut of Falasifah, Iqtisad fi-al-Itiqad, orthodox speculation reached its culminating point.
Ihya'ul ulum al-din, "Revival of Religious Sciences", Ghazali's most important work! The book is the English version of Imam Ghazzali's Ihya Ulum-ud-Din.. It deals with worship and divine service.
Imam Abu-Hamid al-Ghazzali is unquestionably the greatest theologian of Islam and one of its noblest and most original thinkers. He was born in 1058 A.D. at Tus, where he died in 1111. He reproduced in his religious experience all the spiritual phases developed by Islam.
Starting his religious life as orthodox, Al-Ghazzali soon turned Sufi, and when still under twenty he had broken with all the past. In 1091 he was appointed lecturer at the Nizamiyah in Baghdad, where he became a skeptic. Four year later he returned to Sufism after a terrific spiritual struggle that left him a physical wreck. Intellectualism had failed him. As a dervish he roamed from place to place enjoying peace of soul and acquiescence of mind. After about twelve years of retirement in various places, including two years of retreat in Syria and a holy pilgrimage, he returned to Baghdad to preach and teach. There he composed his masterpiece lhya Ulum-id-Din (the revivification of the sciences of religion).The mysticism of this work vitalized the law its orthodoxy leavened the doctrine of Islam. In it and such other works of his Fatihat-al-Ulum, Tahafut of Falasifah, Iqtisad fi-al-Itiqad, orthodox speculation reached its culminating point.
Ihya'ul ulum al-din, "Revival of Religious Sciences", Ghazali's most important work! The book is the English version of Imam Ghazzali's Ihya Ulum-ud-Din.. It deals with worship and divine service.
Imam Abu-Hamid al-Ghazzali is unquestionably the greatest theologian of Islam and one of its noblest and most original thinkers. He was born in 1058 A.D. at Tus, where he died in 1111. He reproduced in his religious experience all the spiritual phases developed by Islam.
Starting his religious life as orthodox, Al-Ghazzali soon turned Sufi, and when still under twenty he had broken with all the past. In 1091 he was appointed lecturer at the Nizamiyah in Baghdad, where he became a skeptic. Four year later he returned to Sufism after a terrific spiritual struggle that left him a physical wreck. Intellectualism had failed him. As a dervish he roamed from place to place enjoying peace of soul and acquiescence of mind. After about twelve years of retirement in various places, including two years of retreat in Syria and a holy pilgrimage, he returned to Baghdad to preach and teach. There he composed his masterpiece lhya Ulum-id-Din (the revivification of the sciences of religion).The mysticism of this work vitalized the law its orthodoxy leavened the doctrine of Islam. In it and such other works of his Fatihat-al-Ulum, Tahafut of Falasifah, Iqtisad fi-al-Itiqad, orthodox speculation reached its culminating point.
REVIVAL OF RELIGIOUS LEARNINGS
IMAM GHAZZALI'S
THYA ULUM-ID-DIN
‘Translated by
FAZL-UL-KARIM
VOL. IIT
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PREFACE
‘The Book of Destructive Evils is the third book of Imam.
Gazzali’s world renowned master piece Ihya Ulum-id-Din or the
Revival of Religious learning. This work is an attempt to
translate the third part of the Thya not too literally but in
substance. This book deals with soul and its attributes, conduct,
greed and passion, benefits and harms of tongue, anger and
envy, attachment for the world, love for wealth and harms of
miserliness, power, show, pride and erroneous beliefs.
A literal translation is avoided in order to omit some
unnecessary things which were prevalent in the then society,
such as arguments of sects and sub-sects and also to omit the
sayings of personages and sages of less importance but it should
benoted that no verse of the Quran and saying of the Prophet has
been omitted in this work.
Translations of the other three books of the Ihya have by the
grace of God already come out of press, namely the Book of
worship, the Book of worldly usages arid the Book of
constructive virtues.
I pery to the Almighly Allah that He may guide the people of
the world in accordance with the teachings of the Holy Quran
and Sunnah and the spirit in which the Thya was written by
‘Hugatul Islam (proof of Islam), a title received by Imam Gazzali
and about which it has been said "If all the books of Islam were
destroyed, it would be buta slight loss if only the Ihya of Gazzali
were preserved.”
DACCA FAZLULKARIM|
CONTENTS OF
BOOK III
THE BOOK OF DESTRUCTIVE BVILS
CONTENTS
CHAPTERI
Soul andits attributes
CHAPTERIL
Riazat or efforts for good conduct in the ways of God
CHAPTERII
Harms of greed and sexual passion
CHPATERIV
Harms of Tongue
CHAPTERV
Harms of anger, hatred and Envy
CHAPTER VI
Evils of the world
CHAPTERVII
Evils of wealth and miserliness
CHAPTER VIII
Evils of power and show
CHAPTERIX
Evils of pride and self-praise
CHAPTERX
Evils of erroneous belief
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