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Al-Ghazali on Poverty and Abstinence is the thirty-fourth chapter of the Revival of the Religious Sciences. It falls in the section dealing with the virtues. Ghazali traces poverty and abstinence back to the Prophet Muhammad who exhorted the faithful to love the poor and described this love as a key to heaven. But behind the Prophet's love of the poor lay his legendary humility, and the life of poverty on which Ghazali expatiates in this treatise refers to what every devoted follower of the Prophet is meant to adopt, not simply an accidental state of destitution that might befall anyone. What is true piety? What spiritual infirmities impede the path of poverty? These are the questions that preoccupy Ghazali in the Book on Poverty and Abstinence. His aim in this chapter is to teach the ordinary believer about inner purification through inner poverty and abstinence. The result is a rich tapestry of practises, thoughts, concepts and anecdotes drawn from some of the most fascinating figures in the tradition of practical ethics in Islam, a tradition that harks back to the enduring examples of pre-Islamic prophets like Jesus, Moses and Joseph.
Contents
CHAPTER ONEStates of one who is Poor and his Names CHAPTER TWO: An Exposition of the Excellence of Absolute Poverty CHAPTER THREE: An Exposition of the Distinctive Excellence of the Poor, the Content and the Sincere CHAPTER FOUR: An Exposition of Poverty's Excellence over Wealth CHAPTER FIVE: An Exposition of the Proprieties of the Poor Person in his Poverty CHAPTER SIX: An Exposition of the Proprieties of the Poor Person upon Receiving an Unsolicited Offering CHAPTER SEVEN: An Exposition of the Forbiddance of Unnecessary Solicitation and the Proprieties of the Poor Person who Must Solicit CHAPTER EIGHT: An Exposition of the Amount of Wealth that Renders Solicitation Illicit CHAPTER NINE: An Exposition of the States of those who Solicit CHAPTER TEN: An Exposition of the Reality of Abstinence CHAPTER ELEVEN: An Exposition of the Excellence of Abstinence CHAPTER TWELVE: An Exposition of the Degrees of Abstinence, its Categories in Relation to itself and to what is Desirable and what is Undesirable CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Elucidation of Abstinence with Respect to the Necessities of Life CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The Signs of Abstinence APPENDIX: Persons Cited in Text
