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☪️Islamic Creed ('Aqidah)

The passages of Jerusalem in the stages of self-knowledge

معارج القدس في مدراج معرفة النفس

Author: أبو حامد محمد بن محمد الغزالي الطوسي (المتوفى: 505هـ) (d. 505)

About this work

هذا كتاب في العقيدة الإسلامية، ألفه أبو حامد الغزالي، ويتناول موضوع النفس البشرية من حيث حقيقتها وأسمائها المترادفة (النفس، القلب، الروح، العقل)، ويثبت كونها جوهراً مستقلاً بالأدلة العقلية والنقلية. يبحث الكتاب في القوى الحيوانية والمدركة، ومراتب العقل، والعلاقة بين العقل والشرع، وينتهي إلى بيان حقيقة الإدراك، ومنشأ الفضائل والرذائل، ومسألة حدوث النفس وبقائها، مع خاتمة في قاعدة النبوة والرسالة.

Translation

This is a book on the Islamic faith, written by Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali, and it deals with the subject of the human soul in terms of its reality and its synonymous names (soul, heart, spirit, mind), and proves that it is an independent essence with rational and textual evidence. The book examines the animal and perceptual powers, the levels of the mind, and the relationship between the mind and the law, and ends with an explanation of the truth of perception, the origin of virtues and vices, and the issue of the emergence and survival of the soul, with a conclusion on the basis of prophecy and the message.

Topics covered

  • The passages of Jerusalem in the stages of self-knowledge
  • Statement of self-affirmation of the sentence
  • A division that shows the principles of actions
  • Drawings of the Three Souls
  • Explaining that the soul is an essence and this is proven from the point of view of law and reason
  • Increased clarity in terms of perception
  • The first proof
  • The second proof
  • The third proof
  • The fourth proof
  • The fifth proof
  • Animal powers
  • Perceived powers
  • The powers of the human soul
  • Levels of reason from the Divine Book
  • The pretense of reason and Sharia and the lack of one in the other
  • The reality of perception and its levels of abstraction
  • Questions and separations beneath which are precious things of science
  • The origin of virtues and vices
  • Mothers of virtues
  • Example of heart plus science
  • The soul and its need for the body
  • Human lives happen
  • Self survival
  • The soul never perishes

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