The Alchemy of Happiness

Chapter 7 : Marriage as a Help or Hindrance to the Religious Life MARRIAGE plays such a large part in human affairs that it must necessarily be taken into account...

Chapter 7 : Marriage as a Help or Hindrance to the...

Chapter 8 : The Love of God THE love of God is the highest of all topics, and is the final aim to which we have been tending hitherto. We...

Chapter 8 : The Love of God THE love of God is th...

Chapter 2 : The Knowledge of God IT is a well-known saying of the Prophet that "He who knows himself, knows God"; that is, by contemplation of his own being...

Chapter 2 : The Knowledge of God IT is a well-kno...

Chapter 3 : The Knowledge of this World THIS world is a stage or market-place passed by pilgrims on their way to the next. It is here that they are...

Chapter 3 : The Knowledge of this World THIS worl...

Chapter 6 : Concerning Self-Examination and the Recollection of God KNOW, O brother, that in the Koran God hath said, "We will set up a just balance on the day...

Chapter 6 : Concerning Self-Examination and the Re...

Chapter 5 : Concerning Music and Dancing as aids to the Religious Life THE heart of man has been so constituted by the Almighty that, like a flint, it contains...

Chapter 5 : Concerning Music and Dancing as aids t...

Chapter 4 : The Knowledge of the Next World AS REGARDS the joys of heaven and the pains of hell which will follow this life, all believers in the Koran...

Chapter 4 : The Knowledge of the Next World AS RE...

The Alchemy of Happiness by Al-Ghazzali Editorial Note The object of the Editors of this series is a very definite one. They desire above all things that, in their humble...

The Alchemy of Happiness by Al-Ghazzali Editori...

Chapter 1 : The Knowledge of Self KNOWLEDGE of self is the key to the knowledge of God, according to the saying: "He who knows himself knows God," 1 and,...

Chapter 1 : The Knowledge of Self KNOWLEDGE of se...

The Alchemy of Happiness by Al-Ghazzali Editorial Note Preface Introduction Chapter I: The Knowledge Of Self Chapter II: The Knowledge Of God Chapter III: The Knowledge Of This World Chapter...

The Alchemy of Happiness by Al-Ghazzali Editori...