OURISLAMIC PUBLICATION IN ENGLISH 1, FATAWARAHIMIYAHG Vole) BYMUFTIABDURRAHIM 145em2Sem 1020pp. LAJPURL RS. 2, HAYAATULMUSLIMEEN BYMAULANA ASHRAF 145em225em220 pp. ‘ALITHANVI RS. 3. WHATISCHRISTIANITY ‘MUFTIJUSTICEMOHAMMAD 145em 2.5m 88pp. TAQIUSMANI 4, NAMESFOR MUSLIM CHILDRENS. (QARIMOHAMMAD 14Sem22.5em88pp. RAFIQ RS, 5. AGUIDEONUMRA& HAJ MAULANAMUNTAK Tem 18em66 pp. HEBULHAQ RS, 6. VIRTUESOFSALAAT ‘MAULANA MOHAMMAD MSem-225emT12pp. ZAKARIYYA 7. VIRTUESOFTHEHOLYQURAN - MAULANAMOHAMMAD 145em22.5¢m 120 pp. ZAKARIYYA, RS. 8, THEDICTIONARY ARABIC BYELIASA.ELIAS ENGLISH & RS. QAMUS ALMADRASI ENGLISH ARABIC Bem i9emsi6 pp. 9. THEMODERNPERSIAN BYPROF.FD.RAZI DICTIONARY Rs, PERSIAN-URDU-ENGLISH 10. THEKASHFAL-MAHTUB ALIB.UTHMAN ALJULLABI ‘THEOLDEST PERSIAN TREATISE "ALHUJWART ONSUFISM RS. 14cm 22.5464 pp. 11, COMMANDSOF ALLAH BYMAULANA AHMED HADIS-E-QUDSI ‘SAEED DEHLLVI 14Sem 18cm 240pp. RS. 3768 PAKISTAN’ DARUL-ISHAAT URDU BAZAR, KARACI REVIVAL OF RELIGIOUS LEARNINGS IMAM GHAZZALI'S ITHYA ULUM-ID-DIN ‘Translated by FAZL-UL-KARIM Published by DARUL-ISHAAT Urdu Bazar, Karachi Pakistan - Phone : 213768 assy”,Publisher DARUL-ISHAAT URDU BAZAR KARACHL PAKISTAN. ‘Tel: 213768 - 2631861 First Ealtion : 1993 Composing at: KODWAVI COMPOSING CENTRE. Pakistan Chow, Karachi. DISTRIRUTORS : Bait-ul-Quran Urdu Bazar Karachi-1 Idara Tul Ma‘arf, Darul Uloom Korangi Karachi-14 ‘Maktaba Darul Uloon Darul Uloom Korangi Karachi-14 dara Tul Quran 437/D, GE. Lasbella Karachi-5 ‘dara-¢-Islamiat 190 Anar Kali Lahore. also available at:— ‘Siddiqui Trust Al-Manzar Apartments Lasbella Karachi-5 Printed At AHMAD PRINTING CORPORATION KARACHI. CONTENTS Chapter. Tauba (Repentance) Meaning of Tauba Merits of Tauba Condition of acceptance of Tauba Conditions of Tauba Medicines for unwillingness of Tauba Chapter2. Patience and gratefulness Merits of patience Merits of gratefulness God's plan in creation of gold and silver and hoarding of food staffs and ownership of and Modes of expressing gratefulness Rewards of patience in calamities Chapter3. Fearandhope Merits of hope Whatis fear? Causes of evilend Fear of angels, Prophets companions and sages Chapter, Poverty and Renun¢ Merits of property Causes of lawful begging’s Renunciation of the world Renunciation of the world Chapters. Tauhid and Tawakkal Whatis Tauhid? Freedom of will Meaning of God-reliance Condition of God-reliance To take medicines not opposed to God-reliance 88 108 13 4. 121 132 136 146 a7 165 167 180 195 197 200 210 225 234Chapter6. Love and Attachment Greatest pleasurein vision of God Attachment for God and men Stories of love of the lovers Chapter7. Wil], intention and Truthfulness Actions relating to intention Rewards of sincere intention Truthfulness Chapters. ‘Meditation and Introspection Stages of meditation Self inflictment of punishment * Self Rebuke Chapter9. Pondering over good ‘Thoughts of God’s creations Chapter 10. Death and subsequentevents Section Modes of thoughts of Death Death of Prophetand four Caliphs Burial and matters relating to it Meaningoflifeanddeath * Punishmentof grave Section2 Events of Resurrection Paradiseand Hell Vision of God and God’s mercy 257 275 319 321 324 331 338 344 370 377 383 385 394 408 10 413 419 421 430 433, PREFACE ‘The Book of Constructive Virtues’ is the fourth and the last volume of Imam Gazzali’s world renowned master piece Thya Ulum- id-Din or the Revival of religious learnings. This work is an attempt to translate the fourth part of the Ihya not too literally bbut in substance from the original written in Arabic. It consistsof two parts. ‘The Book of Constructive Virtues’ consists of two parts. Part II deals with love and attachment, will and intention, meditation and self examination, pondering over good, death and subsequent events, death of the Prophet and four caliphs and events before and after Resurrection and Paradise and Hell. A litteral translation is avoided in order to omit the unnecessary arguments of sects and sub-sects then prevailing in the world and also to omit the sayings of the gages of less importance. But itshould be noted that no verse of the Holy Quran or the Hadis of the Holy Prophet has been ommitted in this translation. Translations of the other parts of Ihya will soon be out of press very shortly by the grace of Almighty God with full details of the Ihya and a short life and activities of Imam Gazzali, the greatest thinker and philosopher of the Muslim world. pray to the Almighty Allah that He may guide the people of the world in accordance with the teachings of the Holy Quran and Sunnah and, the spirit in which the Ihya was written by Hujatul Islam (the Proof of Islam), a title received by Imam Gazzali and about which ithas been said "If all the books of Islam were destroyed, it would be but a slight loss if only the Ihya of Gazzali were preserved.” Dacca Fazlul Karim October, 1971