Some religious and moral teachings of Al-Ghazzali : $b Being brief extracts from his Ihya-u-Ulum-id-dinGhazzali
Islamic
Some religious and moral teachings of Al-Ghazzali : $b Being brief extracts from his Ihya-u-Ulum-id-din
Ghazzali
Islamic ethics -- Early works to 1800
Let knowledge grow from more to more,
But more of reverence in us dwell;
That mind and soul, according well,
May make one music as before,
But vaster. We are fools and slight;
We mock thee when we do not fear;
But help Thy foolish ones to bear,
Help Thy vain worlds to bear, thy light.
Tennyson.
[92] See Bukhari.
[93] Called the “father of Sufiism”. He founded a sect of Sufis in Egypt.
He died in 860 A.D.
[94] St. Matthew VI. 1-4; 16-18.
[95] A celebrated Sufi called Syed Uttaifa (chief of the sect). He died
at Baghdad in 911 A.D.
[96] A theologian and Sufi of Ray in Persia. He died in 871 A.D.
[97] Comp:
Good shepherd, tell this youth what ’tis to love.
It is to be all made of sighs and tears;
It is to be all made of faith and service;
It is to be all made of fantasy,
All made of passion and all made of wishes;
All adoration, duty, and observance,
All humbleness, all patience and impatience,
All purity, all trial, all observance.
Shakespeare: As you like it. _Act_ V.
[98] _Ihya_ IV. 6.
[99] _Quran_ IX. 72.
[100] _Quran_ XCVIII. 8.
[101] _Quran_ XXXII. 17.
[102] _Quran_ XXXVI. 58.
[103] In Tigris.
[104] He conquered Persia in the time of the Khalifa Omar.
[105] The Arabs address elders in this way.
[106] One of the most renowned of the early Sufis. His grandfather was a
Magian who accepted Islam. He was born in 777 A. D. and died at a great
age in 878 A. D.
_Some Preliminary Announcements_
_of_
THE GAEKWAD STUDIES
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RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY
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Personality and Atonement. By the Editor.
Human Needs and The Justification of Religious Beliefs. By the Editor.
The Heart of the Bhagavatgita. By Lingesha Mahabhagavat.
Zoroastrian Ethics. By M. A. Buch.
Kant and Sankaracharya. Prof. C. G. Bhate, Poona.
Selections from Al-Ghassali. By Professor Syed Nawab Ali.
The Doctrine of Karma. A Volume of Essays by various writers.
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A Buddhist Bibliography. By various scholars.
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