The pathway to happiness or saaadah is perpetual motion and constant and consistent hard work in progress. Complete translation of imam ghazali s kimiya al saadat. The alchemy of happiness is a must read for anyone who wishes to take the journey for self explotation, to better understand the self. Al ghazali alchemy of happiness pdf sacred texts islam. Pdf research on happiness has generated much interest in recent years. Al ghazali believed in practicalethical perfection and that by exercising his godgiven capacity for reason man must be drawn to the spiritual alchemy that transforms the soul from worldliness to complete devotion to god. Abu h med mohammad al ghazz l was born in the city of tus, persia, in the year 1058.
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Ghazzali states that each person has his own unique blend of the aforementioned attributes. Al ghazali, one of the sufi masters had written in relation to love for god in his magnum opus, ihya ulumuddin. Exploring the life and impact of the greatest spiritual and legal philosopher in islamic history, this film examines ghazali s existential crisis of faith that arose from his rejection of religious dogmatism, and reveals profound parallels with our own times. I read the alchemy of happiness as translated by claud field as part of an exploratory paper that i was writing to complete my undergraduate program. The alchemy of happiness by al ghazzali claud field, translator b. Joining the global happiness movement should therefore be. That is, humanity has an end and that end is happiness which comes about by selfknowledge, knowledge. Alchemy of happiness ghazali pdf sacred texts islam. Quintessentially imam al ghazali s kimiyayi saadat persian emphasizes the importance of observing the ritual requirements of islam, the actions that would lead to salvation, and the avoidance and effacement of sin. If you wish, o student of the mysteries of god, to learn the essential facts about death, you must know that there are in man two kinds of spirit, one of which is happinss the nature of the spirit in animals and which we call animal spirit, and the other is of the nature of the spirit of. The knowledge of self k nowledge of self is the key to the knowledge of god, according to the saying.
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Pdf imam alghazali has been regarded as the mujaddid the reviver or the islamic reformer of the 5th. It became increasingly possible for individuals to combine orthodox theology kalam and. A few years after he finished the revival, he felt the need to write the same sort of compendium on being a muslim in persian. Al ghazali the alchemist of happiness pdf buy al ghazali the alchemist of happiness. Al ghazali was a famous islamicpersian polymath and philosopher of the early medieval era. Know, o beloved, that man was not created in jest or at random, but marvellously made and for some great end. The alchemy of happiness by hujjatulislam imam abu hamid al ghazali, rahimahullah the book was originally written by imam ghazali in persian.
Alchemy of happiness ghazali pdf pdf pro downloader. It is one of the outstanding works of 11thcenturypersian literature. In the alchemy of happiness too, al ghazali urges the reader to make a habit of. Considering al ghazali s pedagogical tendencies one could assume that the ihya is largerdeeper work on the subject, the kimiya to be the medium work and. The 11th 12th century abbasid philosopher al ghazali is the center of controversy today in western societies seeking to understand islamic radicalism. Al ghazali, the alchemy of happiness, by mohammed alghazzali, the.
Al ghazali on the remembrance of death and afterlife book. This alone, he believed, could produce ultimate happiness. All his life he had aimed to know the deep reality of things, and his mental powers had led him to eminence. In the alchemy of happiness, alghazali begins by writing that he who knows himself is truly happy. The ultimate love, also known as mahabbah, is the highest and the greatest form.
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