The Inner Dimensions of Fasting by Imam Ghazali

From ZAWAJ
The Inner Dimensions of Fasting
From Inner Dimensions of Islamic Worship
By Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
Translated from Ihya’ Uloom ad-Deen by Mukhtar Holland
Three Grades
It should be known that there are three grades of Fasting: ordinary, special and extra-special.

Ordinary Fasting means abstaining from food, drink and sexual [...]

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Al Ghazali on Fasting

FROM: INNER DIMENSIONS OF ISLAMIC WORSHIP
TRANSLATED BY: MUHTAR HOLLAND
THREE GRADES
It should be known that there are three grades of Fasting: ordinary, special and extra-special.
Ordinary Fasting means abstaining from food, drink and sexual satisfaction.
Special Fasting means keeping one’s ears, eyes, tongue, hands and feet-and all other organs-free from sin.
Extra-special Fasting means fasting [...]

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When Ovidio Salazar asked me in 2002 to script a film about Al-Ghazali, the 11th Century Islamic philosopher and theologian, I was intrigued. After the events of 9/11, the non-Muslim world had a partial view of Islam, and Salazar wanted to show another side of this great religion – the tolerant, complex, [...]