Download The Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife: Book XL of the Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ghazali Series, Bk. 40) PDF EPUB
Author: Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali
Pages: 378
Size: 874,65 Kb
Publication Date: January 1,1989
Category: Islam
This is actually the first English translation of the last chapter of Al-Ghazali’s Revival of the Spiritual Sciences (Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din) , widely thought to be the best work of Muslim spirituality.
After expounding his Sufi philosophy of loss of life and showing the need for the contemplation of individual mortality to the mystical method of self-purification, Ghazali requires his visitors through the stages into the future existence: the eyesight of the Angels of the Grave, the Resurrection, the Intercession of the Prophet, and lastly, the torments of Hell, the delights of Paradise and—for the elect—the beatific eyesight of God’s Countenance.