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
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