He remained busy teaching, refuting heresies, and responding to questions from all segments of the community. At the age of 34 he accepted a position as rector and professor of the Nizamiyya College in Baghdad.
He studied under the great theologian and jurist Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni (478/1085) and produced a number of texts on Islamic law and theology. This translation published for the first time with facing Arabic text also includes many notes and transliteration for the supplications contained within.Ību Hamid ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Tusi al-Shafi’i al-Ghazali (or al-Ghazzali) was born in 450/1058, in Tus (located in present-day Iran). One of Imam Ghazali’s final works, it embodies a lifetime of learning, experience, and spirituality and can be taken as an introduction to his larger works. The three sections of this book are on obedience, refraining from disobedience, and the etiquette of companionship with the Creator and with creation.
#BEGINNING GUIDANCE GHAZALI PDF MANUAL#
He then goes on to expound the fundamentals of this “beginning.” While being concise and to-the-point the manual is laid out in the form of a detailed daily timetable providing the reader strong inspiration and much heart-rending counsel. 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.
Imam Ghazali’s Bidayat al-Hidaya is a highly motivational manual detailing the fundamentals of acquiring guidance through God-consciousness (taqwa).
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