Al-Ghazali's Lost Gate to God | Self-Knowledge in The Alchemy of Happiness

<p><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" width="640" height="390" src="https://www.inoreader.com/yt-embed/?v=Y1y-otvyUnw" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" style="width:100%;aspect-ratio:16/9;height:auto;display:block;border:0;" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>Al-Ghazali walked away from the most prestigious teaching position in the Sunni world because he could no longer speak. He had reached the limit of what argument could do. The Alchemy of Happiness is what he wrote when he came back.<br> In this essay we read his first chapter slowly. The chapter is built on one saying: He who knows himself knows his Lord. From that hadith Ghazali draws a complete map of the human interior, the kingdom of the soul, the four faculties, the heart as a polished mirror, the pilgrim and the camel. Each image carries the same diagnosis. What you call yourself is not yourself. The work is to find the one who has been listening all along.<br> <br> This is the gate Ghazali found, and the only gate he ever recommended.<br> <br> 📖 Sources<br> Al-Ghazali, Kimiya-yi Sa'adat (The Alchemy of Happiness), <br> trans. Claud Field (1910). Chapter I, "The Knowledge of Self."<br> Al-Ghazali, al-Munqidh min al-Dalal (The Deliverer from Error), <br> trans. W. Montgomery Watt.<br> Al-Ghazali, Ihya Ulum al-Din, Book 21 (Marvels of the Heart), <br> trans. Walter Skellie.<br> <br> MORE FROM SPIRITUALRELIEF<br> Music <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@UCBo3tQklTFD_10GtJx8mAmA">https://www.youtube.com/@UCBo3tQklTFD_10GtJx8mAmA</a> <br> Express Your Support Through A YouTube channel membership:<br> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb2GDYQwKx6lYfvJCZCHx0w/join">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb2GDYQwKx6lYfvJCZCHx0w/join</a><br> Essays and translations <a href="https://spiritualrelief.substack.com">https://spiritualrelief.substack.com</a><br> <br> #alghazali #alchemyofhappiness #sufism #selfknowledge #islamicmysticism #sufiwisdom #ibnarabi #spiritualrelief</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1y-otvyUnw" target="_blank">- Enlace a artículo -</a></p> <p>Más info en https://ift.tt/9WoDwdh / Tfno. & WA 607725547 Centro MENADEL (Frasco Martín) Psicología Clínica y Tradicional en Mijas. #Menadel #Psicología #Clínica #Tradicional #MijasPueblo</p> <p>*No suscribimos necesariamente las opiniones o artículos aquí compartidos. No todo es lo que parece.</p>