We need to somehow lift the curtain of delusion from our eyes with regards to the temporality of this world and somehow start believing in the hereafter as a grave and forthcoming reality. We need to somehow lift the curtain of de This is a book that can easily be unappreciated. If a person by the payment of a thousand pieces of gold, could become master of alchemy, yet the condition of the man who is absolutely master of ten thousand pieces of gold would be better and preferable. Now the faithful, truthful and experienced in religion, who are mindful that the soul is treacherous, deceptive, perfidious, malicious and false, always watch carefully over their own souls, lest they should do something that transcends the commands of the law, or that is contrary to reason.
Now in this way it is possible that the knowledge of the soul should become the key to the knowledge of God. All existence hzppiness of two kinds, one is of the world of decrees, and the other is of the world of creation. The remarkable treatise, which I introduce to your notice, is a translation from one of the numerous works of the Arabian Philosopher, Abou Hamid Mohammed ben Mohammed al Ghazzali, who flourished in the eleventh century. We have to stop deluding ourselves with the attachment of ghaazli world. It follows, therefore, that man was not created for these things, but rather to serve God and to grow in the knowledge of him. Ihya-ul-ulum Ghazzali says: “The matter went so far that certain persons boasted of a union with the The first four chapters of The Alchemy of Happiness are a. Ghazzali’s “The Alchemy of Happiness”, written toward the end of his life, provides a succinct introduction to both the theory and practice of Sufism (Islamic.
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