Ghazali’s The Beginning of Guidance (Bidayat al-Hidaya)
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Imam Ghazali’s Bidayat al-Hidaya (The Beginning of Guidance) is a highly motivational manual detailing the fundamentals of acquiring guidance through God-consciousness (taqwa). Imam Ghazali argues that just as there is an end to this noble objective there is also a beginning to it, which must be made firm for one to achieve success.
The Jewels And The Pearls Of The Qur’an (DKI)
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The Qur’an, from which the sciences branch off, is like an ocean. It includes various types of Jewels and Pearls.
Abou Hamid Al-Ghazali aims in this book to inform humans about the different parts of Qur’an.
There are two parts in this book that mention the relation between life and the hereafter, the difference of excellence of Qur’anic verses and finally the types of Qur’an’s Jewels and Pearls.
Remembrance & Prayer: The way of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w
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Remembrance and Prayer: The Way of Prophet Muhammad, was one of the first works of Shaykh al Ghazali’s to be translated into English. The book describes in vivid prose how the Prophet, upon him be peace, used to remember Allah and pray to Him. Not only are the exquisitely beautiful, deeply moving and penetrating words of the Prophet given in the English translation, but in the original Arabic as well, thus allowing those desirous of memorizing Arabic access to the original texts. The intimate relationship with Allah, which was the hallmark of the Prophet’s life, becomes clear and vivid. The book’s contents are immensely relevant. to the life and concerns of modern man, whose life has been made barren by the present secularist machinery.
Stop Worrying Relax & Be Happy
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This book, by the noted Egyptian scholar of recent times, discusses:
- Renew your life!
- Living according to one’s daily commitments
- Firmness, lassitute, and deception
- Worries and venoms
- How to eliminate the causes of worry
- Knowledge produced by action
- Make lemonade out of lemons
- Purity of Secrecy and Publicity
- and much more!
The Purification of the Soul (P/B)
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The Purification of the Soul Imam Ghazali, Imam Jawziya and Iman ibn Hanbali
Wonders Of The Heart
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The term ‘heart’ has a primal position in the vocabulary of Muslim religious teachers and in that of the philosophers. The term is used in Islam for the seat of intellectual and emotional life. In this treatise, al-Ghazali unravels its wonders and secrets, achieving his desired end – to lead man to the good life. This is the twenty-first book of the third quarter of al-Ghazali’s Ihya Ulum al-Din.