Some religious and moral teachings of Al-Ghazzali : $b Being brief extracts from his Ihya-u-Ulum-id-din — John Shaqi
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
1. Repentance.
2. Patience and Thanksgiving.
3. Hope and Fear.
4. The Poor and the Hermit,
5. Unity of God, and Dependence on Him.
6. On Love, Ecstasy, and Joyous Submission to His will.
7. On Intention, Sincerity and Truth.
8. Meditation.
9. Contemplation and taking a Warning.
10. On Death and the After-Life.
Against the philosophers he argued for the belief in the reality of the
divine attributes and against the view of the eternity of the world. He
contended against the theory that there would be no physical punishments
and rewards hereafter, maintaining, as he did, the doctrine of the
resurrection of the body. He virtually denied that there is real causal
connection in events as experienced by us: but only sequence: in this he
adumbrates the theory of Hume. For Ghazzali, God is the only efficient
cause. From the scepticism to which his consideration of philosophy led
him he turned to the acceptance of revelation, this as found in the
mystic experience and in the words of saints and prophets, especially the
Prophet Muhammed.
The knowledge of moral principles Ghazzali conceived as coming not
through rational reflection but by immediate intuition of the divine
character revealing itself. Moral truths come especially through moral
and religious teachers, as the most fit persons for the transmission of
these revelations. He possessed great skill in psychological analysis
of moral conditions, and passages in illustration of this have been
included here, treating of pride and vanity, friendship and sincerity. As
almost all great practical moral and religious teachers, Ghazzali makes
considerable use of apt stories, and of striking sayings from the saints
and prophets. He continually harks back to the time of the Prophet and
his “Companions”.
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