Al-Ghazali on Disciplining the Soul & on Breaking the Two Desires Medicine/Self development the development

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faith [iman]

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this book will be a means to celebrate the magnanimous personality of the Prophet and an incentive to instil the great qualities of the Prophet in their own lives

Al-Ghazali on Disciplining the Soul & on Breaking the Two Desires Medicine/Self development the developmentThe spiritual life in Islam begins with riyadat al nafs, the inner warfare against the ego. Distracted and polluted by worldliness, the lower self has a tendency to drag the human creature down into arrogance and vice. Only by a powerful effort of will can the sincere worshipper achieve the purity of soul which enables him to attain God's proximity. This translation of two chapters from The Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya Ulum al Din) details