Al Ghazali´s Mishkat- The Niche for Lights

The author: Al Ghazali

Translated by: W.H.T. Gairdner

This extract from the famous Ihya 'Ulum ad-Din is the English translation of Imam Ghazali's mystical treatise on the Light Verse of the Holy Quran: "Allah is the Light of the Heavens and the Earth. The parable of His Light is as if there was a Niche and within it a Lamp: the Lamp enclosed in Glasse: The Glass as it were a brilliant star: Lit from a blessed tree, an olive, neither of the East nor of the West..." (24:35)

A brief but crucial contribution to understanding Ghazali's mystical insight.

98 pages, hard bound