In this lesson of Renewing Religion, Ustadh Amjad Tarsin, reflects upon the chapters from Imam Ghazali’s Ihya on sincerity, self-examination, meditation and reflecting on death. Ustadh Amjad begins with the chapter on sincerity, explaining that true sincerity can lead habits to be acts of worship if they are done with the right intentions. Many of […]

Renewing Religion: An Overview of Ghazali's Ihya

27- Sincerity, Vigilance, Meditation, Reflection on Death –Renewing Religion- Ustadh Amjad Tarsin

In this re-broadcast lesson of Renewing Religion, Shaykh Faraz gives an overview of the chapters on faith in Divine Oneness and trusting in Allah as well as the chapters on love, longing, and intimacy from Imam Ghazali’s Ihya. Shaykh Faraz begins by explaining that knowing Divine Oneness in its true meaning entails certitude within your […]

26- Faith in Divine Oneness & Love and Intimacy- Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

In this lesson, Ustadh Amjad Tarsin gives an overview of the chapters on patience and thankfulness, fear and hope, poverty, and abstinence from Imam Ghazali’s Ihya. In this chapter, Imam Ghazali explains that faith is of two halves: half is patience and half is gratitude, and having certainty of Allah is the whole of faith. […]

25-Patience & Thankfulness, Fear & Hope, Poverty & Abstinence- Renewing Religion- Ustadh Amjad Tarsin

In this lesson, Shaykh Faraz Rabbani gives an overview of the chapters on the condemnation of the Dunya; pride; conceit and delusion; and on repentance. These chapters are part of Imam Ghazali’s Ihya and a series of sessions on renewing religion. Shaykh Faraz begins by explaining that each person has a self that requires affirmation […]

24: Worldliness, Pride, Conceit, Delusion & Repentance – Renewing Religion-Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

In this re-broadcast lesson, visiting scholar, Shaykh Walead Mosaad, gives an overview of Imam Ghazali’s chapters on the condemnation of miserliness, love of wealth, status; and the condemnation of ostentation. These chapters fall in the third quarter of Imam Ghazali’s opus magnum that focuses on the vices of person. All these vices are primarily about […]

23- Condemnation of Love of Wealth & Status – Renewing Religion: An Overview of Ghazali’s Ihya – Shaykh Walead Mosaad

In this re-broadcast lesson, visiting scholar, Shaykh Riad Saloojee gives an overview of the chapter on enjoining the good and forbidding the evil from Imam Ghazali’s Ihya. This chapter is divided into a number of topics: [1] the importance of enjoining the good and forbidding the evil [2] the conditions and etiquette of enjoining the […]

18- Enjoining Good & Forbidding Evil – Renewing Religion- Shaykh Riad Saloojee

In this re-broadcast lesson, visiting scholar Shaykh Riad Saloojee, gives an overview of the chapter on the etiquettes of travel from Imam Ghazali’s Ihya. The chapter begins by discussing the two types of travel, that of the body and that of the heart. Then, he continues to the purposes of travel, the etiquettes of travel, […]

17- Etiquette of Travel- Renewing Religion-Shaykh Riad Saloojee

In this re-broadcast class, visiting scholar, Shaykh Riad Saloojee, gives an overview of Imam Ghazali’s chapter on the Etiquettes of Seclusion from the book Ihya Ulum al-Din. Shaykh Riad delves into the benefits and harms of seclusion that one should keep in mind. The benefits of seclusion: [1] Taking time to reflect and remember Allah, […]

16- Etiquettes of Seclusion –Renewing Religion- Shaykh Riad Saloojee

In this re-broadcast lesson, visiting scholar, Shaykh Riad Saloojee gives an overview of the Chapter on Duties of Brotherhood from Imam Al-Ghazali’s Ihya. This chapter is divided into several sections: [1] The virtues of fraternal relations and brotherhood [2] Loving one another for the sake of Allah [3] How one should deal with and interact […]

15 – Duties of Brotherhood – Renewing Religion-Shaykh Riad Saloojee

In this re-broadcast lesson, visiting scholar, Shaykh Riad Saloojee gives an overview of the Chapter on The Permissible and The Impermissible from Imam Ghazali’s Ihya. The chapter is divided into the following sections: [1] the virtue of the permissible and the problems of the impermissible [3] the doubtful and how to judge and evaluate between […]

14-The Lawful and Prohibited-Renewing Religion- Shaykh Riad Saloojee

In this re-broadcasted lesson, visiting scholar, Shaykh Riad Saloojee gives a brief overview of the chapter on the etiquettes of Earning a Livelihood from Imam Al-Ghazali’s Ihya Ulum al-Din. This chapter is divided into several sub-themes: [1] The virtue in earning your own livelihood [2] The fiqh of contracts or the laws that govern the […]

13-Etiquettes of Earning Livelihood- Renewing Religion- Shaykh Riad Saloojee

In this lesson, visiting scholar, Shaykh Riad Saloojee, gives an overview of the Chapter on the Etiquettes of Marriage by Imam Ghazali. Shaykh Riad delves into the spiritual meanings that can be observed during the marriage. Shaykh Riad begins with a beautiful quote that sums up the lesson “two bodies cannot connect in the same […]

12-Etiquettes of Marriage- Renewing Religion-Shaykh Riad Saloojee

In this re-broadcasted lesson, we are joined by visiting scholar, Shaykh Riad Saloojee, giving a brief overview of the Etiquettes of Eating chapter from Imam Al-Ghazali’s Ihya Ulum al-Din. This is the first chapter in the second quarter of the book, which is on acts of worship. When the heart is in tawheed of Allah […]

11- Etiquettes of Eating- Renewing Religion- Shaykh Riad Saloojee

In this lesson, visiting scholar, Shaykh Riad Saloojee, reviews the tenth chapter of Ihya Ulum al-Din on spiritual routines. This chapter covers the daily supplications and remembrance one should engage in at various times. This chapter is the last of the first quarter of the Ihya Ulum al-Din, which is on worship. Imam Al-Ghazali begins […]

10-Spiritual Routines & Night Worship- Renewing Religion- Shaykh Riad Saloojee

In this re-broadcasted lesson, Ustadh Amjad Tarsin reviews the chapter on the etiquette of reciting the Quran from Imam Al-Ghazali’s book Ihya Ulum al-Din. The Chapter goes through the outward etiquettes of recitation as well as the inward implications of those practices. Learning the Quran and teaching the Quran is not limited to teaching, but […]

08-Etiquettes of Reciting Quran- Renewing Religion- Ustadh Amjad Tarsin

In this brief overview of Imam Ghazali’s opus magnum, Ihya Uloom ud-Din (Renewing the Religious Sciences), this series will serve as blueprint for how the believer can bring to life their religion. It will aim to help the believer to not just practice the form of the religion properly, but to also practice it with excellence.

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Renewing Religion: An Overview of Ghazali's Ihya

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