The Savior From Error: al-Munqidh min al-Dalal

 The Savior From Error -
[A5] Paperback - 65 pages,
by Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali.
Translated by Shaykh Muhtar Holland,
Published by Al-Baz, USA.

Description :

This is the 'spiritual autobiography' of the great Imam al-Ghazali, may Allah be pleased with him, and describes what caused him to leave fame and fortune to undertake the spiritual path of the Sufi's.

 
In it, besides providing a personal history and describing the key events which led to this and flowed from it, Imam al-Ghazali, may Allah be pleased with him, takes time to repudiate the methods and logic of the philosophers and the esoterics (batiniyya) and the principles of sophistry.

 
Lastly he provides a section on the Reality of Prophethood and the urgent need all people have for it. This is a book that contains much of value to the genuine seeker of Truth.

  

Table of Contents :


---Publishers Preface,
---Acknowledgements,
---Introduction of the Author, Imam Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali.

---Chapter [1]. The Principles of Sophistry and the Repudiation of the Sciences,

---Chapter [2]. Concerning the Categories of the Seekers ;

------(1). The Science of Theology, its Purpose and its Fruit,
------(2). Philosophy,
-------The Categories of the Philosophers, and the ascription on unbelief to them all,
---------a. The First Category: the Atheists [Dahriyyun],
---------b. The Second Category: the Physicists [Tabi'iyyun],
---------c. The Third Category: the Deists [Ilahiyyun],
---------d. The Subdivisions of their Sciences,
------(3). The aberrant doctrine of the Esotericists,
------(4). The Method of the Sufi's.

---Chapter [3]. The Reality of Prophethood and the urgent need all people have for it,

---Chapter [4]. The Reason for Disseminating Knowledge after turning away therefrom.


---About the Translator.

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Another decent publication from Al-Baz Publishers, USA.