ABOUT THE BOOK


The Book of Destructive Evils is the third book of Imam Gazzali's world renowned master piece Ihya Ulum-id-Din or the Revival of Religious learning. This work is an attempt to translate the third part of the Ihya not too literally but in substance. This book deals with soul and its attributes, conduct, greed and passion, benefits and harms of tongue, anger and envy, attachment for the world, love for wealth and harms of miserliness, power, show, pride and erroneous beliefs.

REVIVAL OF RELIGIOUS LEARNINGS

A mirror to the soul

A literal translation is avoided in order to omit some unnecessary things which were prevalent in the then society, such as arguments of sects and sub-sects and also to omit the sayings of personages and sages of less importance but it should be noted that no verse of the Quran and saying of the Prophet has been omitted in this work.

Chapter 1 Soul and its Attributes
  • Soul and its attributes
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Chapter 2 Good Conduct
  • Riazat or efforts for good conduct in the ways of God
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Chapter 3 Hunger and Sexual Passion
  • Harms of greed and sexual passion
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Chapter 4 Harms of the Tongue Part 1
  • Harms of Tongue
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Chapter 4 Harms of the Tongue Part 2
  • Harms of anger, hatred and Envy
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Chapter 5 Anger, Hatred and Envy
  • Harms of anger, hatred and Envy
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Chapter 6 Attachement to the World
  • Evils of the world
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Chapter 7 Love of Wealth
  • Evils of wealth and miserliness
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Chapter 8 Love of Power and Show
  • Evils of power and show
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Chapter 9 Pride and Self Praise
  • Evils of pride and self-praise
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Chapter 10 Condemnation Error
  • Evils of erroneous belief
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