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Al-Ghazali on Disciplining the Soul and on Breaking the Two Desires (Books XXII and XXIII of The Revival of the Religious Sciences)

by Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

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Mar 10, 2022 04:14AM

“Worship in Islam is not only observance of the prescribed worship rites – Prayer, Almsgiving, Fasting, Pilgrimage – but living one’s entire life in obedience to God, doing His will and seeking His pleasure, exactly in the way He has laid down.”
― Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, Inner Dimensions of Islamic Worship

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“ibn al-Musayyab said: ‘If a person performs Prayer in a wilderness, an angel prays on his right and an angel prays on his left. If he also gives the Call to Prayer and the signal to begin, angels perform Prayer behind him in rows like mountain ranges.”
― أبو حامد الغزالي, Inner Dimensions of Islamic Worship

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“placing the Ka’ba between my brows, the Bridgeover-Hell beneath my feet, Paradise to my right and Hell to my left, and the Angel of Death behind me, thinking all the while that this is my final Prayer. Then I stand between hope and fear.”
― Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, Inner Dimensions of Islamic Worship

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