Mustafa Abu Sway

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9781847740816

A Companion for the Untethered Soul

This concise work presents forty gems from Al-Ghazali, with accompanying commentary by Mustafa Abu Sway, Integral Chair for the Study of Imam al-Ghazalis Work at the Aqsa Mosque and at the Al-Quds University in Jerusalem.

Contents

1 Education with the Right Intention

2 Are You in the Wrong Business?

3 Seek Felicity

4 Introspection

5 Do Your Good Deeds Outnumber Your Bad Ones?

6 The Greatest Pleasure of All

7 Deconstructing Greek Metaphysics

8 Do not Eat Your Path to Heaven

9 The Merits of Marriage

10 Striving Beyond Justice

11 Degrees of Piety

12 The Fruit of Divine Love

13 Travelling

14 Listening to Songs

15 Enjoining Good and Forbidding Evil

16 Behaviour is the Mirror of the Heart

17 Flames of Repentance

18 Patience Against Sin

19 True Grace

20 A Plantation for the Hereafter

21 Shamefully Busy

22 Sins as True Veils

23 Occasionalism (Allah is the Cause of all Events)

24 Love is the Renewed Imperative

25 On Knowledge, Action and Sincerity

26 There Are Absolutely No Secrets

27 Thinking and Having a Preference for the Eternal

28 Remembering Death

29 Knowledge vs. Gold and Silver

30 Presenting Faith to Children

31 External Cleansing and Internal Purification

32 Deconstructing Distractions

33 Fasting Has Three Degrees

34 Liberation from Attachments

35 Involvement of the Tongue, Intellect and Heart in Reciting the Holy Quran

36 Knowing Allah Is a Matter of the Heart

37 Inculcating Beautiful Personal Traits

38 Excessive Appetite for Food Unleashes Destructive Forces

39 Healing the Love for Status

40 Revolting Against Powerful Unjust Rulers