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Al-Ghazali on Poverty and Abstinence

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Al-Ghazali on Poverty and Abstinence is the thirty-fourth chapter of the Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din), which is widely regarded as the greatest work of Muslim spirituality. In Al-Ghazali on Poverty and Abstinence, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali considers two themes dear to Islamic devotional literature: poverty and abstinence. Taking as his example the Prophet's love for the poor, Ghazali explains that poverty is not simply an accidental state of destitution that might befall anyone but rather an inner acceptance of the Will of God and a form of abstinence for His sake. Thus the life of poverty described by Ghazali in Al-Ghazali on Poverty and Abstinence refers to what every devoted follower of the Prophet is meant to adopt whatever his or her outer state may be.

In this new edition, the Islamic Texts Society has included the translation of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali's own Introduction to the Revival of the Religious Sciences which gives the reasons that caused him to write the work, the structure of the whole of the Revival and places each of the chapters in the context of the others.

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ISBN: 9781903682814
Publication date: 11th June 2019
Author: Ghazzali, Asaad F Shaker
Publisher: The Islamic Texts Society an imprint of Islamic Texts Society
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 176 pages
Series: The Islamic Texts Society's Al-Ghazali Series
Genres: Islam
Islamic life and practice
Theology
Islamic and Arab philosophy