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Minhaj al-Abidin ila Jannati Rabbi'l-Alamin: The Path of the Worshipful Servants to the Garden of the Lord of All the Worlds
Minhaj al-Abidin ila Jannati Rabbi'l-Alamin: The Path of the Worshipful Servants to the Garden of the Lord of All the Worlds
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Muhtar Holland
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About The Book
The author tells us how he implored Allah “to make it possible for me to compose a book—one that would meet with unanimous approval, and the reading of which would result in positive benefit—and He inspired me with a marvelous arrangement, the like of which I did not recall in any of the previous compositions dealing with the secrets of religious practices.”
"We therefore looked into the subject of worshipful service, and made a careful study of its path, from its beginnings to its destinations, which are the desired goals of its travelers. It is indeed a rugged path and a hard road, fraught with many obstacles, serious hardships, remote distances, enormous difficulties, frequent hindrances and impediments. It is beset with deadly perils and interruptions, abounding in enemies and highway robbers, and offering very few companions and followers. This is exactly how it needs to be, since it is the path of the Garden of Paradise..."
He also said, “Worshipful service is the fruit of knowledge, the benefit of life, the income of strong servants, the stock-in-trade of the saints [awliya'], the path of the truly devout, the allotted portion of the mighty, the goal of those endowed with aspiration, the emblem of the noble, the vocation of real men, and the choice of those with faculties of vision. It is the way of good fortune and the path [minhaj] of the Garden of Paradise.”
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About the author
al-Ghazali: Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali (450-505 AH / 1058-1111 CE) was born in Tus, in the Khorasan region of Persia, and is remembered as one of Islam's most influential thinkers. Losing his father young, he studied at Nishapur and was appointed, while still in his thirties, to the prestigious Nizamiyya college in Baghdad. He was Shafiʿi in law and Ashʿari in creed, and his contemporaries honored him as Hujjat al-Islam, the Proof of Islam. At the height of his fame al-Ghazali passed through a profound spiritual crisis, recounted in his autobiography al-Munqidh min al-Dalal (Deliverance from Error). He abandoned his teaching post, traveled, and devoted years to the inward discipline of the Sufis before returning to instruction with a renewed purpose. His landmark work, Ihyaʾ ʿUlum al-Din (The Revival of the Religious Sciences), reconstructs the religious life across four parts, acts of worship, social custom, the vices that ruin the soul, and the virtues that save it. In philosophy he wrote Tahafut al-Falasifa (The Incoherence of the Philosophers), a careful critique of the Hellenistic thinkers of his age. Bridging law, theology, philosophy, and mysticism, al-Ghazali shaped the direction of Sunni thought for centuries, and his books remain widely read and translated. His many works are available here in English translation.
About the translator
Muhtar Holland: Muhtar Holland (1935-2010 CE) was an English translator whose patient, faithful renderings opened a large body of classical Islamic literature to English readers. He was born in the city of Durham in northeast England and was drawn from school onward to the study of languages, reading Arabic and Turkish at Oxford and learning Russian during national service in the Royal Navy. He embraced Islam in 1969, taking the name Muhtar, after a period connected to the Subud movement.\n\nOver the following decades he held academic and research positions at the University of Toronto, the School of Oriental and African Studies in London (with a period studying Islamic law in Cairo), and Universiti Kebangsaan in Kuala Lumpur, and he served as a senior research fellow at the Islamic Foundation in Leicester and as director of a translation center in New York.\n\nHis most enduring contribution was an extensive series of translations of the discourses and writings of Shaykh Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani, among them Revelations of the Unseen (Futuh al-Ghaib), The Sublime Revelation (al-Fath al-Rabbani), Utterances (Malfuzat), and The Removal of Cares (Jalaʾ al-Khawatir). He also translated treatises of al-Ghazali, including works on inner worship and the celebrated Deliverance from Error. Shaykh Nuh Keller described him as a translator's translator, and many regarded him as foremost among English renderers of these texts. He died on 5 November 2010 in New Jersey.
Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN
9781882216260
Publisher
Al-Baz Publishing
Author
al-Ghazali
Pages
309
Translator
Muhtar Holland
Year Published
2011
Size
W-6 in | H-9 in | D-0.6 in
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