Monday, January 9, 2012

Imam al-Ghazali's Book on Seeking Status

Book VIII: Attributes Leading to Perdition

Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, may God be pleased with him, was one of the greatest scholars of Islam. His spiritual work, the Ihya Ulum al-Din, is one - if not the - greatest spiritual treatise in Islam.

This particular section of the Ihya deals with the spiritual disease of seeking status among the people.

I love Imam al-Ghazali for his ability to provide a firmly rooted understanding of a spiritual disease from the Qur'an and Sunnah and then provide a treatment for that disease in an easy to understand rehabilitation program.

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