His works are read today by scholars and the common people alike, and they are unique and valuable in the Muslim world because they clearly define Sufism's central place and relation to Islamic orthodoxy. In the meantime he resumed teaching for a few years at the Nizamiyyah College in Nishapur.Īl-Ghazali embarked on the Islamic mystic path Sufism - in his later life, and wrote THE seminal works on Sufism and ethics in Islam. After two years of travel in Syria and Palestine and performing the the pilgrimage to Mecca, he returned to Tus, where he spent the remainder of his years in writing, Sufi practices and teaching his disciples until his death. Al-Ghazali was instead filled with fear about his own intentions before the Divine, as a famous and acclaimed intellectual to whom people turned, and his potential lack of humility. It's important to note that he did not have any misgivings about Islam itself. After four years of this, however, Al-Ghazali had a serious spiritual crisis and finally left Baghdad, renouncing his career and the world. As the intellectual head of the Islamic community, he lectured on Islamic jurisprudence at the College, formulated responses to heresies and addressed questions from all segments of the community. He was appointed head of the Nizamiyyah College at Baghdad in AD 1091 by the local Seljuk sultan. This is a common characteristic of many major Muslim historical figures, something to keep in mind in current times, when Islam is portrayed as a religion of the Arabs. Thus, he was ethnically Persian, a non-Arab. He was schooled in the various branches of Islamic learning in his home town of Tus, Gurgan and Nishapur in the northern part of what is today Iran. His name is renowned from Morocco to Indonesia, from northern Russia to the southern tip of Africa. In Sufism or mystical Islam, many poets were highly accomplished and regarded scholars or even jurists.Īl-Ghazali is one of the greatest Islamic jurists, theologians and mystical thinkers of all time. Islam had spread beyond the confines of the Arabian peninsula, having incorporated the Persian world, and other nearby non-Arab cultures. During what Europe calls the 'Dark Ages,' Islamic civilization was still progressing to the zenith of the known world's accomplishments in scholarship, science, literature and other pursuits of cultivated civilizations. To understand Al-Ghazali requires some basic understanding of Muslim history and culture. Mais lorsque le lait caillé se mélange avec le beurre, ce qui est entretenu avec ce qui est négligé, que le médecin prétend qu’il a la connaissance de résoudre les désaccords religieux, l’architecte qu’il est doué dans la jurisprudence, le mathématicien qu’il peut corriger les contes littéraires, et le prédicateur qu’il est un juge entre les gens du fiqh et les gens du hadith, alors c’est là le grand désastre et la source des débauches.Ĭe livre fut grandement apprécié par le grand savant Mouhammed Nasserouddine Al-Albany, qu’Allah lui fasse miséricorde.And the songless through him burst into melody. Comme tu le sais, ô mon frère, l’écrivain est connu pour son éloquence et il se réclame de la da’wa, et celui qui prêche ce qu’il maîtrise, on ne lui reproche pas d’avoir fait une erreur dans un article ou d’avoir trébuché sur un point. Il a abordé des sujets qu’il ne maîtrise pas, dans le fiqh et le hadith, où il a cafouillé et dit des choses surprenantes, et il a expliqué la législation d’Allah au gens selon sa raison.
Crime pour ce qu’il contient comme règles et fondements de refus des pratiques prophétiques rapportées, et comme raillerie des gens de science. J’écris quelques mots pour avertir celui qui a une clairvoyance acérée sur ce crime contre la législation d’Allah qu’est le livre « la Sunna prophétique entre les gens de la jurisprudence et les gens du hadith ».