This book throws light into the lives of a hundred great men, the greatest of them being the Noble Prophet pbuh . It is a look into the ascetic aspects of their lives.
In whatever they did, they sought Allah. They stayed away from sin and did not love the world. However they did not practise monasticism.
These include Prophets, companions, the (tabi'oon) followers as well as those who followed them.
English translation by Rafique Abdur Rahman
# Cover: Hardback
# Author: Muhammad Siddiq al-Manshawi
# Publisher: Darul Isha'at
# Pages: 375
On the path of Tasawwuf, the Salik strives to replace his lowly bestial attributes with lofty qualities. Unmindfulness of the laws of Allah are replaced with constant attention towards Allah.
Shaykh al-Hadith Maulana Muhammad Zakariyya always reminded his friends; ''consistency is a stepping stone to success.''
The advises reproduced in this book will be of great assistance to those salikeen who are consistent with their prescribed devotions. As for the negligent, ''99 Advises to Salikeen'' will be a reminder of the benefits that they are being deprived of.
The advises tabulated in this book were extracted from books written by Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi and other saintly elders of the past.
# Cover: Paperback
# Author: Shaykh al-Hadith Maulana Muhammad Zakariyya
# Publisher: Idara Isha'at-e-Diniyat
# Pages: 103
A Collection of Speeches by Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani, taken from Discourses on Islamic Way Of Life.
This books consists of the following speeches:
* An Easy Way To Establish a Relationship With Allah
* What is Deen (Religion)?
* The Demands of Kalimah Tayyibah And The Company Of The Men Of Allah
* The Importance Of Traditional Prayers
* (The Philosophy and Reality Of) Bismillah
* Details of Invocational Prayers During The Day
A Daily Program For Dhikr &Dua
- Cover: Paperback
- Author: Dr Muhammad Abdul Hai rifi
- Publisher: Idaratul Ma'arif
- Pages: 64
A Collection of Speeches by Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani taken from Discourses on Islamic Way Of Life.
This collection consists of the following lectures:
* Purify Your Hearts
* The Need For Mujahadah (struggle)
* The Struggle With The Innderself
* Diseases Of The Heart
* Mind Your Own Business
* How To Live Before One Dies?
* What Is Purification?
* The Reality of Tasawwuf
* Cure For Worries
* Repentance - An Antidote of Sins
* Fear of Allah FIghts off Sins in Man
The Beginning of Guidance, a translation of Ghazali's Bidaya al-hidaya complements his spiritual autobiography and sets out his ideal of how the religious man should order his life from hour to hour and day to day.
Abu Hamid ibn Muhammad Ibn Muhammad al-Tusi al-Shafi'i al-Ghazali was born in 450/41 AH/1058 C.E. in Tus in Khorasan, (a region of modern day Iran). His father died while he was still very young but he had the opportunity of getting education in the prevalent curriculum at Nishapur and Baghdad. Soon he acquired a high standard of scholarship in religion and philosophy and was honoured by his appointment as a Professor at the Nizamiyah University of Baghdad, which was recognised as one of the most reputed institutions of learning in the golden era of Muslim history. After a few years, however, he gave up his academic pursuits and worldly interests and became a wandering ascetic. This was a process (period) of personal mystical transformation. Later, he resumed his teaching duties, but again left these. An era of solitary life, devoted to contemplation and writing then ensued, which led to the author- ship of a number of everlasting books. He died in 505 AH/1111 C.E. at Tus.
Al-Ghazali's major contribution lies in religion, philosophy and Sufism. A number of Muslim philosophers had been following and developing several viewpoints of Greek philosophy, including the Neoplatonic philosophy, and had lead to conflict with several Islamic teachings. On the other hand, the movement of sufism was assuming such excessive proportions as to avoid observance of obligatory prayers and duties of Islam. Based on his unquestionable scholarship and personal mystical experience, Ghazali sought to rectify these trends, both in philosophy and sufism.
He was a prolific writer. His books include Tahafut al-Falasifa (The Incoherence of the Philosophers), Ihya Ulum al-Din (The Rivival of the Religious Sciences), "The Beginning of Guidance and his Autobiography", "Deliverance from Error". Some of his works were translated into Latin in the Middle Ages, where he was known as Algazel and via the translation of a truncated work, the Maqasid al-Falasifa [The objectives of the Philosophers.]
Al-Ghazali's influence was deep and everlasting. He is one of the greatest theologians of Islam and his influence penetrated Europe, influenced Jewish and Christian Scholasticism, and several of his arguments seem to have been adopted by Thomas Aquinas in order to similarly reestablish the authority of orthodox Christian religion in the West.
# Cover: Paperback
# Author: Imam Ghazali / Trans. Professor Mashhad Al-Allaf
# Pages: 192
Al-Ghazali's 'The Path Of The Worshipful Servants To The Garden of the Lord of all the Worlds.' (Minhaj al-'Abidin ila Jannati Rabbi 'l-'Alamin)
Widely considered to be Abu Hamid al-Ghazali's last book, this summary of his Sufi philosophy charts the pitfalls and obstacles to be overcome in order to enter the kingdom of heaven. Dictating his words to a group of elect students, Ghazali acknowledges his own nearness to death and instructs seekers of eternal life to resist hindrances such as fear and impairments such as conceit in order to find salvation in the essentials of Allah.
Al-Ghazali (d.1111) is commonly regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of medieval Islam. A theologian, logician and jurist., he is known for revealing the compatibility of the outward forms or religion with the innder experiences of the Sufi and mystical traditions.
Translated by Muhtar Holland.
# Cover: Paperback
# Author: Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
# Publisher: Amal Press
# Pages: 146
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Al-Wasiyya - The Advise Of The Esteemed Scholar Muwaffaq ad-Din Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi
This book is a distillation of the wisdom gained after years of study of sacred texts from the Islamic tradition. The author, Muwaffaq ad-Din al-Maqdisi, is one of the foremost scholars in the Hanbali school, and this concise and inspiring work sums up the realities of this world and the next, gathered in kernels of advice to his fellow believers.
Biography of Imam Ibn Qudama
Ibn Qudama is Abdullah ibn Muhammad ibn Qudama, Abu Muhammad Muwaffaq al-Din al-Jama'ili al-Maqdisi, born in Jama'il, Palestine, in 541/1146. A Hanbali scholar and Imam, he was educated in Damascus, and was the author of the nine-volume Al-Mughni [The enricher] in Hanbali jurisprudence as well as other works in fundamentals of Sacred Law, tenets of faith, geneology, biography, and Qur’anic exegesis. He travelled to Baghdad in 561 AH and lived there four years before returning to Damascus, where he died in 620/1223.
Translated by Aisha Bewley.
# Cover: Paperback
# Author: Muwaffaq ad-Din Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi
# Publisher: Turath Publishing
# Pages: 72
A prescription for the diseases of the heart. Issues like preference for death over life, the glad tidings, respect, and honour for a Muslim at the time of death; respect and love for him in the heavens and earth; blessings of the intermediate realm (barzakh); comfort and ease in the gathering place (mahshar); the physical and ruhani pleasures of Paradise, etc, are covered in this work Originally compiled by the author to engender reliance in Allah and patience especially at times of calamity, so instead of sorrow, happiness; instead of fear, peace of mind; instead of distress, contentment will result.
- Cover: Hardback
- Author: Shaykh Ashraf Ali Thanwi
- Publisher: Islamic Book Service
- Pages: 122
Discourses of Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi (RA)
- Cover: Paperback
- Author: Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi
- Publisher: Islamic Promotions
- Pages: 53
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