Travelling Light, Imam al-Ghazali's Revival of the Religious Sciences
,
DVD of
Books 31 - 34, from the
Ihya with Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad,
from the Sinanova Tekke, Sarajevo,
Boxed 4 Disc DVD Set,
Directed and Produced by Zakariyya Whiteman,
by Mishkat Media, Cambridge.
Description :
BOOKS 31 -34 [ Released September 2008 ]
Mishkat Media presents 'Travelling Light' - the timeless spiritual wisdom of Imam al-Ghazali's,
may Allah be pleased with him, The Revival of the Religious Sciences (
Ihya 'ulum al-Din), brought alive for today by the teaching of leading scholars of the Muslim community.
Lectures
on this Islamic classic are now available accompanied by beautiful
films shot at historic sites around the Muslim world, among the
communities nourished by the teachings of the Imam. This
DVD set
introduces four of the most important of the forty 'book' topics which
comprise this massive work. They relate to 'Saving Practices' (
munjiyat). In this collection are the following Books
31 -34
:
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Repentance, ---
Patience and Gratitude,
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Fear and Hope,
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Poverty and Renunciation.
Disc 31 also includes an interview with Osman Lavic, curator at the Gazi Husrev-beg Library in Sarajevo, and translator of Imam al-Busiri’s
Qasidat al-Burda into Bosnian (2008). Lavic shows the Sarajevo manuscript of al-Ghazali’s work, thought to be the oldest in the world, and talks about some of the other unique treasures in his collection.
Qur’anic recitation is by Hafiz Mensur Melkic, Imam of the Gazi-Husrev Beg Mosque, Sarajevo.
Location
: The Sinanova Tekke, is a sufi lodge on the outskirts of the city of Sarajevo. The word
tekke orginates from the persian word
tekije.
Tekkes are also known as
Zawiyas (arabic) or
khanqahs (south Asia). All
tekke's, regardless of size, feature a large central hall. The daily ritual prayers incumbent on all Muslims
, the
Salaah, maybe held in this hall, as are the specifically Sufi forms of
dhikr , meditation and celebration of the divine.
Speaker
: Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad (aka Dr Timothy Winter)
Dr Abdal Hakim Murad (born 1960), is a British Sunni Sufi Muslim
researcher, writer and academic. He is also Dean of the Cambridge Muslim College, UK, which trains Imams for British mosques. In 2010 he was voted Britain’s most influential Muslim thinker by Jordan’s Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre.
He has translated a number of books from the Arabic, including several sections of Imam al-Ghazali's
Ihya' Ulum al-Din.
Contents :
4 DVD's Lecture Summary :-
---31:
Repentance (
al-Tawba). What is wrong action? How can we understand our damaged inner state, and repair it? The
Imam explains that repentance consists of knowledge of the act, an emotion of sorrow, and a decisive inner and outward action that will erase the wrong action and help the spiritual wayfarer never to return to it.
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32:
Patience and Gratitude (
al-Sabr wa’l-Shukr). We are made human by our ability to restrain our egos and cravings. We also experience states of overwhelming gratitude to our Creator. Here the
Imam explains how to cultivate these two gifts, and to keep them in a positive relationship which promotes spiritual growth.
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33:
Fear and Hope (
al-Khawf wa’l-Raja’). Almighty God is to be feared; for His justice is absolute. But we also hope for His mercy, for He is ‘the most merciful of all’. We fear our weakness, and hope for God’s forgiveness; the
Imam explains how the balanced soul is one in which both these gifts are alive and active.
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34:
Poverty and Renunciation (
al-Faqr wa’l-Zuhd). Here the
Imam celebrates the poverty of the Holy Prophet,
may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and shows how a detached attitude to the things of this world is a precondition for inner calm and a stress-free life.
More
Travelling Light Al-Ghazali DVD's,
More from
Imam al-Ghazali.
This listing is for a
4 Disc DVD Set : Region 0 (Multi-region). [
Printed books are not included] Running Time: 4 x 75 minute films.
