Al-Ghazali — Lettre à Shihab al-Islam (II)
- Langue:
- anglais
- État:
- Œuvre complète
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- Étendue:
- ~840 mots · 4 passages
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- APAAl-Ghazali. (n.d.). Al-Ghazali letter to Shihab-ul-Islam [Al-Ghazali — Lettre à Shihab al-Islam (II)]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/al-ghazali/al-ghazali-letter-to-shihab-ul-islam
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- ChicagoAl-Ghazali. Al-Ghazali letter to Shihab-ul-Islam [Al-Ghazali — Lettre à Shihab al-Islam (II)]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/al-ghazali/al-ghazali-letter-to-shihab-ul-islam.
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De quoi il s'agit
Une lettre à Shihāb al-Islām.
Contexte et histoire
Quatre fragments. Il y en a une autre au catalogue orthographiée « Shahabul-Islam » : la transcription de l'arabe et du persan en anglais n'est pas normalisée et le même nom apparaît de deux façons. Ce sont des pièces différentes. 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.
Man is given a limited will, it depends upon him. Either he identifies his being with his selfness and its interests, or throws aside his selfness and thereby identifies himself exclusively with the Divine within and without. This is the path of enlightenment. Allah has raised you to the high rank of the premiership of the Seljuq empire. The time has now come when you should wish for a rank higher than this. When you reach it and feel satisfied with it, it is then that you will be transferred from this stage to another which is higher than this. It is then that you will be turned towards a rank which is more honorable and rewarded with a feeling of self- sufficiency at which time the doors of salvation will be opened to you as explained in the sayings of the Prophet, praise and peace be upon him. I have written this letter to you for a specific reason and that is to introduce you to one of my old friends. Both his inspiration to his disciples and his dedication to a noble life are due to signs from beyond which seems to him to be the domain of his own self. He is the father of religious society, a mystical society. He is an elderly man and too weak to earn a livelihood. He has faced not only hardship but arduous labor, and ill treatment, all of which have contributed to his ill-health. Besides, Abu Bakr Abdullah, who is so favored that the hidden things of Paradise are shown to him, has asked me to introduce him to you with a request that you may help ease his financial difficulties. I pray to Almighty Allah to open the doors of His everlasting kingdom to your soul so that it may behold all that happens on this earth and may He enable you to renounce your own worldly advancement for the sake of the Divine which is better. Your Excellency's humble servant, Al Ghazali