Al-Ghazali — Lettre à Khwaja Imam Abbasi
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- anglais
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- ~840 mots · 4 passages
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De quoi il s'agit
Une lettre à Khwāja Imām 'Abbāsī.
Contexte et histoire
Une courte pièce de la correspondance avec les hommes de religion. Elle provient du Faḍā'il al-anām, le recueil de la correspondance persane d'al-Ghazālī, et figure au catalogue comme une pièce à part. **Ce n'est aucune de ses œuvres majeures** : pour celles-là, voir L'Alchimie du bonheur et les Confessions d'al-Ghazālī, également ici. L'original est en persan ; ceci est une traduction anglaise.
Contexte éditorial, non une source citable : contrairement aux passages de l'œuvre, ces données ne peuvent pas être vérifiées dans le corpus.
The universe has flowed out from Him. It is a Divine emanation and there is also a cosmic process of "returning" back to the Eternal One. The only possible approach therefore, is the way of negation. The stage of obeying the commands of Allah comes next. The abandonment of forbidden things consists of three things. One, the heart should be purified of all inner impurities. Two, we should improve our conduct so that other men may be improved. Three, thankfulness for the blessings of comfort in the limbs and organs of the body is to use them in carrying out the commands of Allah and in restraining ourselves from forbidden things and also from evil and sinful acts. One should always weigh one's words and deeds. Wisdom means the intelligent weighing of both sides of a situation and the finding out of the right middle course between two extremes. It is, therefore, very important that we should subject ourselves to the verdict of a balance and discover whether our scale will rise or fall. When one's self comes across objects of pleasure, it naturally insists that they should be obtained for the time being and that they would be abandoned next time. The best course left open to us in this condition is that we should ask our self to abstain this time from gaining the objects and that it would be more advisable to obtain them next time. We should take our self no more seriously than it takes us. We have the right to restore to a sort of personal reprisal. In this way we return to the right quarter jest for jest, we play the trick that has been played on us. If we cannot practice this continuously, at least we can make ourselves as familiar with it as possible. It is the recollection of Allah, the thought of Allah, which in all places and circumstances make us see Him present. Let us commune respectfully and lovingly with Him and fill ourselves with the desire and affection of Him.