Kimiya e Saadat : Urdu,
Large Hardback - 884 pages,
by Abu Hamid al-Ghazali [d.505h],
Tarjuma by: Muhammad Saeed Ahmad Naqshbandi,
*Published in Islamabad, Pakistan.




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Kimiya al-Saadat (The Alchemy of Happiness) is Hujjat al-Islam (The Proof of Islam) Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, may Allah be pleased with him, own abridgement of his masterpiece, the Ihya Ulum al-Din (The Revival of the Religious Sciences).


Translated from persian into Urdu by Mawlana Muhammad Saeed Ahmad Naqshbandi, rahimullah, khatib Masjid Data Ganj Bakhsh, Lahore.




Imam al-Ghazali.

He is Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad, Abu Hamid al-Tusi al-Ghazzali [or al-Ghazali] al-Shafi‘i (450-505), may Allah be pleased with him, "the Proof of Islam" (Hujjat al-Islam), "Ornament of the Faith," "Gatherer of the Multifarious Sciences," "Great Siddîq," absolute mujtahid, a major Shafi‘i jurist, heresiographer and debater, expert in the principles of doctrine and those of jurisprudence. Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi stated that, like ‘Umar ibn ‘Abd al-‘Aziz and al-Shafi‘i for their respective times, al-Ghazali is unanimously considered the Renewer of the Fifth Islamic Century.


Ibn al-Subki, may Allah be pleased with him, writes: "He came at a time when people stood in direr need of replies against the philosophers than the darkest night stands in need of the light of the moon and stars."


Among his teachers in Law, Debate, and Principles:

---Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Radhakani, (in Tus),
---Abu Nasr al-Isma‘ili,  (in Jurjan),
---Imam al-Haramayn; Abu al-Ma‘ali al-Juwayni,

Among his other shaykhs in Hadith were :

---Nasr ibn ‘Ali ibn Ahmad al-Hakimi al-Tusi,
---‘Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khawari,
---Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Muhammad al-Suja`i al-Zawzani,
---Abu al-Fityan ‘Umar ibn Abi al-Hasan al-Ru’asi al-Dahistani,
---Nasr ibn Ibrahim al-Maqdisi.

Among his shaykhs in Tasawwuf were :

---al-Fadl ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Ali al-Farmadi al-Tusi (one of Abu al-Qasim al-Qushayri’s students)
---Yusuf al-Sajjaj.







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Imam al-Ghazali books.


NB: Sub-continent print quality, bruising and rips to spine, etc.

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*Dimensions : 24.5 x 19.4 x 5.1cm.