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 : 213768Publisher DARUL-ISHAAT URDU BAZAR KARACHI-PAKISTAN. Tel : 213768 - 2631861 First Edition : 1993 Composing at: _KODWAVI COMPOSING CENTRE Pakistan Chowk, Karachi. DISTRIBUTORS : Bait-ul-Quran Urdu Bazar Karachi—1 Idara Tul Ma‘arif, Darul Uloom Korangi Karachi-14 Maktaba Darul Uloon Darul Uloom Korangi Karachi-14 Idara Tul Quran 437/D, G.E. Lasbella Karachi-5 Idara-e-Islamiat 190 Anar Kali Lahore. also available at:— Siddiqui Trust Al-Manzar Apartments Lasbella Karachi-5 Printed At : AHMAD PRINTING CORPORATION KARACHI. THE BOOK OF WORLDLY USAGES CONTENTS CHAPTERI Rules of Eating and Drinking CHAPTERII Secrets of Marriage Benefits and harms of marriage Divorce Duties of husband and wife CHAPTERIII Earnings, Trade and, Commerce CHAPTERIV Halal & Haram Different stages of doubtful things Allowances and gifts of rulers CHAPTER V Love and Brotherhood Rights of friendship and brotherhood’ CHAPTER VI Duties to relatives, neighbours, Muslims Duties towards Muslims Duties towards Neighbours Duties towards Relatives Duties towards servants and Slaves CHAPTER VII (CHAPTER VIII CHAPTERIX CHAPTERX _CHAPTERXI Benefits and harms of seclusion and society Rules of journey Music and Exctacy Enjoining good & Forbidding Evil Condduct and Character of Holy Prophet 101 117 117 131 134 137 139 151 162 207PREFACE. The Book of worldly usages is the second book of Imam Gazzali’s world renowed master piece Ihya Ulum-id-Din or the Revival of religious learning. This work is an attempt to translate the second part of the Ihya not too literally but in substance from the original written in Arabic. The book II deals with the worldly usages, etiquettes, manners, rules and regulations concerning eating and drinking, marriage, earnings and trade, lawful and unlawful earnings, duties towards Muslims, neighbours, servants and slaves, harms and benefits of seclusion and society, journey, music, enjoining good and forbidding evil and character and conduct of the Holy Prophet. A literal translation is avoided in order to omit the unnecessary arguments of sects and things prevailing in the world and to omit the sayings of less important sages. But no verse of the Quran or saying of Prophet has been omitted in this book. I pray to the Almighty 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 Ihya was written by Hujjatual Islam (the 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 but a slight loss if only the Ihya of Gazzali were preserved”.