{"product_id":"9786338393267","title":"The Abridgement of *Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din*","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003eThe Abridged Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din (The Revival of Religious Sciences)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eAuthor: Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"html-content detail-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eThis book is not meant to be read once and then set aside; rather, it is a companion for the journey, to be consulted and revisited whenever meaning becomes unclear or the heart falters. This is why \"Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din\" has remained relevant throughout the centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eThe book spans the entire human journey: from the prayer niche to the marketplace, to the depths of the heart where desires and virtues clash.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eWhen Imam Al-Ghazali wrote \"Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din,\" it was like a stone cast into still water, creating successive waves of research, study, and contemplation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eThe importance of the book lies in its numerous chapters. Al-Ghazali dedicated chapters to the importance of knowledge and research, to one's relationship with oneself, self-purification, and overcoming one's ego, to one's relationship with religion, understanding it, and striving for comprehension and action, to one's relationship with others, and to one's relationship with the universe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eWhenever you ponder a topic, you will find Al-Ghazali mentioning it somewhere. Amidst attempts to rid the heart of what hinders remembrance, attempts to understand religion more deeply, attempts to free the self from attachment to imperfections, and methods of striving and endeavor, this book stands as one of the most important in the history of Islamic thought. Just as the book sparked waves of research and contemplation, it also provoked diverse perspectives that agreed and disagreed with Al-Ghazali's own ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eThis book remains one of the most important for any reflective individual to have in their library, to find comfort in it when needed and benefit from it as much as possible; it is a book on purification, remembrance, dealings, and the understanding and comprehension of this great religion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eIn this book...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e– Chapters on the virtue of knowledge, intention, vigilance, contemplation, and the remembrance of death and what comes after it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e– Chapters on fear, hope, supplication, asceticism, reliance on God, intimacy with Him, and contentment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e– Chapters on self-purification and resisting the desires of the stomach, vanity, arrogance, and other imperfections of the self.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e– Chapters on prophetic ethics and the etiquette of dealings and benevolence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47084912902298,"sku":"9786338393267","price":60.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/O_UA_IOO_IU_-_final_front_rgb-80.jpg?v=1770497693","url":"https:\/\/bookfanar.com\/en\/products\/9786338393267","provider":"Book Fanar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}