Author: Maulana Fazul - Ul - Karim
Publisher: Kitab Bhavan
Year: 2013
Language: English
Pages: 1545
ISBN/UPC (if available): 817151006X
Description
The Book is the English version of Imam Gazzali’s Ihya ulum-id-din. It deals with worship and divine services.
Imam Abu-Hamid al-Ghazzali is unquestionably the greatest theologian of Islam and one of is noblest and most original thinkers. He was born in 1058 AD at Tus, where he died in 1111. He reproduced in his religious experience all the spiritual phased 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 become a sceptic, four years 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 form 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 master piece IHYA 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 work of his Faithful-al Ulum, Tahafut al falasifah, Iqtisad fi-al-itiqad, orthodox speculation reached its culminating point.
Contents
BOOK-I
PREFACE
PREFACE OF IMAM GAZZALI
CHAPTER I
Acquisition of Knowledge
CHAPTER II
Foundation of Belief
CHAPTER III
Mysteries of Cleanliness
CHAPTER IV
Secrets of Prayer
CHAPTER V
Secrets of Zakat and Chraities
CHAPTER VI
Secrets of Fasting
CHAPTER VII
Secrets of Pilgrimage Ten Secret Things of Haj
CHAPTER VIII
Excellence of the Quran
CHAPTER IX
Zikr and Invocations
CHAPTER X
Actions after division of Times
BOOK –II
CHAPTER I
Rules of Eating and Drinking
CHAPTER II
Secrets of Marriage
CHAPTER III
Earnings, Trade and Commerce
CHAPTER IV
Halal & Haram
CHAPTER V
Love and Brotherhood
CHAPTER VI
Duties to relative, Neighbours, Muslims
CHAPTER VII
Benefits and harms of Seclusion and society
CHAPTER VIII
Rules of Journey
CHAPTER IX
Music and Exctacy
CHAPTER X
Enjoining good & Forbidding Evil
CHAPTER XI
Conduct and Character of Holy Prophet
BOOK-III
CHAPTER I
Soul and its attributes
CHAPTER II
Riazat or efforts for good conduct in the ways of God
CHAPTER III
Harms of greed and sexual passion
CHAPTER IV
Harms of Tongue
CHAPTER V
Harms of Anger, hatred and Envy
CHAPTER VI
Evils of the world
CHAPTER VII
Evils of wealth and miserliness
CHAPTER VIII
Evils of Power and show
CHAPTER IX
Evils of Pride and Self-praise
CHAPTER X
Evils of erroneous beliefs
BOOK-IV
CHAPTER I
Tauba (Repentance)
CHAPTER II
Patience and gratefulness
CHAPTER III
Fear and hope
CHAPTER IV
Poverty and renunciation
CHAPTER V
Tauhid and Tawakkal
CHAPTER VI
Love and Attachment
CHAPTER VII
Will, intention and Truthfulness
CHAPTER VIII
Meditation and Introspection
CHAPTER IX
Pondering over good
CHAPTER X
Death and subsequent events