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Travelling Light (DVD) series 1 - Imam Ghazalis Revival of the Religious Sciences Book 31-34
:: 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.
:: Patience & 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.
:: Fear & 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.
:: Poverty & Abstinence (al-Faqr wa’l-Zuhd)
Here the Imam celebrates the poverty of the Holy Prophet, and shows how a detached attitude to the things of this world is a precondition for inner calm and a stress-free life.
The lectures are by Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad. Born in London in 1960, Abdal Hakim has studied in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and has translated several portions of Imam al-Ghazali’s Ihya into English. He is currently lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge and Chair of the Muslim Academic Trust.
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 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,
Publisher: Mishkat Media
Author: Abdal Hakim Murad
Pages: DVD
Price: £19.95
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