Jonathan ac Brown University of Washington With an accessible English translation alongside the original Arabic text, this introductory work will be useful for readers interested inexploring the realities of Islamic piety, students of Arabic and educators alike.” “An excellent translation of an important book on the fundamentals of Muslim piety and etiquette. This translation published for the first time with facing Arabic text also includes many notes and transliteration for the supplications contained within. One of Imam Ghazali’s final works, it embodies a lifetime of learning, experience, and spirituality and can be taken as an introduction to his larger works. The three sections of this book are on obedience, refraining from disobedience, and the etiquette of companionship with the Creator and with creation. He then goes on to expound the fundamentals of this “beginning.” While being concise and to-the-point the manual is laid out in the form of a detailed daily timetable providing the reader strong inspiration and much heart-rending counsel.

Imam Ghazali argues that just as there is an end to this noble objective there is also a beginning to it, which must be made firm for one to achieve success. Imam Ghazali’s Bidayat al-Hidaya is a highly motivational manual detailing the fundamentals of acquiring guidance through God-consciousness (taqwa). Publisher: White Thread Press (Second Edition 2010)

Author: Hujjat al Islam Abu Hamid al Tusi al Ghazali (Imam Ghazali) Mashhad al-Allaf (translator)

Beginning guidance ghazali pdf