Mysteries of Prayer, Book 4 of Ihya Ulum al-Din

Al-Ghazali, M. Abdurrahman Fitzgerald (tr.)

Paperback

9781941610350

Kitab Asrar al-Salat

In this work, Imam al-Ghazali explains the inner and outer meanings of the ritual prayer, salat.

Contents

1 On the Merits of Prayer, Prostration, the Congregational [Prayer], the Call to Prayer, and others

2 On How to Perform the Outward Elements of the Prayer, Beginning with the Taker and What Comes Before It

3 The Inward Requisites [of the Prayer]: Practices of the Heart

4 On the Imam and [His] Example

5 On the Merts of the Friday Prayer, the Manners [Relating] to It, Its Sunna, and Its Requisites

6 Various Questions Which Are Generally Troubling to People and About Which An Aspirant Should Know

7 On Supererogatory Prayer