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Bidayat as-sul fi Tafdil ar-Rasul (The Beginning of the Quest for the High Esteem of the Messenger) is a concise work summarizing succinctly forty distinctive virtues and characteristics of the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace) Translated by Aisha Bewley.

A completely revised second edition of a very popular volume. Key to the Garden is an elaborate exposition of the Prophet Muhammad’s teaching that the inner life must pass through three stages: affirmation of faith with the tongue, then the mind, and finally the heart. The Muslim Testimony of Faith, that “there is no deity save God,” is at once the essence and the highest principle of Islam.

Imam Ghazali speaks of the harm of love for this world in the Traditions (ahadith) and then describes the true baseness of this world. This is Book XXV of Part Two of the Alchemy of Happiness entitled The Destroyers.

The treatment of the love of power and control according to al-Ghazzali involves first understanding the true nature of the love and then treating it. He also discusses the treatment for the love of being praised and the different degrees of people concerning praise and blame. This is Book XXVII of Part Three of the Alchemy of Happiness entitled The Destroyers.

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Stretching from Morooco to China, the Umayyad caliphate based its expansion and success on the doctrine of jihad-armed struggle to claim the whole earth for God's rule, a struggle that had brought much material success for a century but suddenly ground to a halt followed by the collapse of the ruling Umayyad dynasty in 750 CE.

"The Attributes of God" is a translation of Daf' Shubah al-Tashbh by the great Hanabali Imam, 'Abd al-Raman ibn al-Jawzi(d. 597 AH). In this classic work, Ibn al-Jawzi provides a vigorous defense of the Hanabli school from the accusation of being one that equates God with His creation (anthropomorphism)!