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"Al-Ghazali on Love, Longing, Intimacy and Contentment" is the thirty-sixth chapter of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali's "Revival of the Religious Sciences" (Ihya Ulum al-Din), which is widely regarded as the greatest work of Muslim spirituality. "Al-Ghazali on Love, Longing, Intimacy and Contentment" is of fundamental importance in the history of Islamic thought and in the development of Sufism, being the first treatise to establish not merely the possibility but the necessity for the love of God.---In "Al-Ghazali on Love, Longing, Intimacy and Contentment", Ghazali argues that all the virtues and spiritual stages that precede love, like repentance, patience and thankfulness, lead to love; and all the spiritual stages that follow on from love are a result of it. Using proof texts from the Qur'an, the Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad and Sufi precepts, Ghazali succeeds in marshalling forceful arguments to make his case. Out of Ghazali's pioneering treatment would emerge not only new trends in Sufi theory and practice, but an entire body of mystical poetry including that of the great Persian poets Rumi and Hafiz.---Professor Eric Ormsby's fully annotated translation brings out all the beauty and lyricism of the text. The translation is preceded by an extensive introduction which sets the work in its historical and spiritual context.---In this new edition, the Islamic Texts Society has included the translation of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali's own Introduction to the "Revival of the Religious Sciences" which gives the reasons that caused him to write the work, the structure of the whole of the "Revival" and places each of the chapters in the context of the others.
Contents
Al-Ghazali's Introduction to the "Revival of the Religious Sciences"---Abbreviations---Preface---Introduction---Notes to Introduction---Prologue---Chapter One: An Exposition of the Proof-Texts from Revelation Concerning Man's Love for God---Chapter Two: An Exposition of the True Nature and Causes of Love, with an Explanation of the Meaning of Human Love for God---Chapter Three: An Exposition that God Alone Merits Love---Chapter Four: An Exposition that the Noblest and Loftiest Pleasure is Knowledge of God and Contemplation of His Blessed Face and Only He Who Is Denied this Pleasure can Conceivably Prefer Another To It---Chapter Five: An Exposition of Why the Beatific Vision in the World to Come Surpasses Knowledge in this World---Chapter Six: An Exposition of the Factors that Strengthen Love of God---Chapter Seven: An Exposition of Why there are Disparities among People with Respect to Love---Chapter Eight: An Exposition of Why the Human Understanding is Unable to Know God---Chapter Nine: An Exposition of What Longing for God Means---Chapter Ten: An Exposition of the Meaning of God's Love for Man---Chapter Eleven: The Distinguishing Marks of Man's Love for God---Chapter Twelve: An Exposition of the Meaning of Intimacy with God---Chapter Thirteen: An Exposition of the Meaning of the Uninhibitedness and Forwardness which Overmastering Intimacy Produces---Prologue: The Meaning of Contentment with God's Decree: Its True Nature and What Tradition Reports of Its Merit---Chapter Fourteen: An Exposition of the Merit of Contentment---Chapter Fifteen: An Exposition of the Essence of Contentment (and How It Can be Conceived as a Check to Appetite)---Chapter Sixteen: An Exposition that Supplication is not in Conflict with Contentment---Chapter Seventeen: An Exposition that Fleeing and Censuring a Country Reputed Sinful Is not Contrary to Contentment---Chapter Eighteen: A Compilation of Anecdotes about Lovers, Together with their Sayings and Innermost Illuminations---Chapter Nineteen: Conclusion: Various useful Sayings Regarding Love---Notes---Appendix: Persons Cited in Text---Bibliography---Index to Qur'anic Quotations---General Index
