Abu Nawas Story - King Slapped Cheek

One day, Abu Nawas stop by the house of his acquaintance, a Jew. There, taking place a very lively musical performances. Many people who watched that the atmosphere was so festive. All guestsin attendance to play music, including Abu Nuwas who had just entered. There’s a harp playing, dancing, and so on, all revelers.

Abu Nawas Story - Killed Himself by Drinking Honey

Intelligence behind the brain, it turns out, Abu Nuwas have some skills that are qualified. One is as a tailor, and even before becoming a confidant of the king of  Harun Al Rashid, Abu Nuwas was once worked as a seamstress at the employer named Mr.Amir.

The Battle of Khandaq ( Trench )

The Battle of Khandaq

The Battle of Khandaq ( Trench )

Ali bin Ibrahim, Shaykh Mufeed and Shaykh Tabarsi have narrated that the expedition entitled Ahzab or Khandaq was undertaken in the month of Ramadan, in the fifth year of Hijrat, and was occasioned in the following manner: When the Bani Nuzayr1 were expelled from Medina, some of them went to Khyber and their chief, Huyy bin Akhtab, went to Mecca, and induced Abu Sufyan to organize an expedition against the Prophet; supporting his cause by the mention that Muslims have driven them out of Medina and confiscated their property; he also added that 700 men of Bani Quraiza who remained behind in Medina have a treaty with the Prophet but they are brave fighters, I will persuade them to violate the treaty so that they may help us against Muhammad.

Sidi Ibn Ata'illah as-Sakandari

Sidi Ibn Ata'illah as-Sakandari

Wisdom

"Your desire to withdraw from everything
when GOD has involved you in the world of means
 is a hidden appetite.

Your desire for involvement with the world of means 
when GOD has withdrawn you from it
is a fall from high aspiration".

Ibn Ata'illah as-Sakandari
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Al-Ghazali Story - Part 9 ( The End )

BIBLIOGRAPHY

So far the best sources for a bibliography on al-Ghazālī are Sayyid Murtada, Ittihaf al-Sadah, Cairo, 1311/1893, Vol. I, pp. 41-44; Carl Broekelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, Weimar, 1898, Vol. I, pp. 419-26, Supplementbände Leiden, 1937, Vol. I, pp. 744 et sqq.; and Zweite den Supplementbänden angepasate Auflage, Vol. I. Leiden, 1943, pp. 535 et sqq. A list of articles on al-Ghazālī in English and some of the European languages published in the various periodicals etc., from 1906-1955 is to be found in Index Islamicus, Cambridge, 1958, pp. 150-52. A fairly comprehensive subject-wise classification of al-Ghazālī’s works and a topic-wise though brief, bibliography can be found in the article “Al-Ghazzālī” in the Encyclopaedia of Islam. In the three sections below an attempt has been made to list: (i) those of al-Ghazālī’s works which can be arranged-in a chronological order with some measure of certainty, (ii) works the authenticity of which has been doubted by the professional students of al-Ghazālī (for both these sections, cf. note No. 24 in the preceding chapter), and (iii) books (or sections thereof) and articles most of which have been referred to in the notes but which are not included in any of the sources mentioned above.

Al-Ghazali Story - Part 8

INFLUENCE

Al-Ghazālī’s influence within Islam has been both profound and most widespread: his works have been and still are being read and studied from West Africa to Oceania more than those of any other Muslim writer, and his teaching has been accepted and made a rule of life more than that of any other theologian. It has been claimed and rightly so that “al-Ghazālī’s influence, taken singly, on the Muslim community has been perhaps greater than that of all the scholastic theologians.” {637} But we hasten to add that, like any other original thinker in the world, al-Ghazālī did not go without his share of criticism. The unprecedented attempt on his part to make orthodoxy mystical and mysticism orthodox, and both philosophical, naturally incurred suspicion and criticism from all schools of thought and all shades of opinion both before and after his death. Liberals have criticized him for his conservatism, and conservatives for his liberalism; philosophers for his orthodoxy, and the orthodox for his philosophy.

Al-Ghazali Story - Part 7

ETHICS

Al-Ghazālī is the best known Muslim writer on moral subjects. But there are some critics31 who have recently made attempts to belittle the importance of his ethical theory by trying to show that it is entirely, or at least mainly, derived from the Aristotelian and Neo-Platonic doctrines and from the writings of the Muslim philosophers whose systems were Hellenic in spirit. Al-Ghazālī was, undoubtedly, a widely read scholar and was, therefore, well versed in the ethical thought of the Greeks, which did influence him. But it would be basically wrong to say that he was dependent on Greek philosophy for his {624} inspiration.