Abdal Hakim Murad is an authority on Islamic Sufism and his contribution in terms of lectures and films on myriad subjects of Sufism. His documentary on Hujjatul Islam Moulana Gazali(RA) is incredible. his convincing power and indepth knowledge has made him a distinguished scholar. May Allah bless him and his companions.
If you start reading Ihya of Imam Ghazali, you will feel like sitting in front of a great saint. You will feel peace. It will move you. It will transform you. Any doubt? Try to read it! See for yourself...
There is a pivotal or central element in this great religion that sums up the whole of it, which is the love of God the Almighty and his Noble messenger as a role model. And the rest is a mere details. That's it.
If a non-muslim listens to his speech he might get converted. I, myself have seen an academic-looking women getting converted by Sheik Abdul Hakim in Cambridge Mosque 3 months ago
The truth lies in the heart of a great scholar who managed (by the grace of God) to collect and pick all its (the truth) real parts from among a huge amount of information, and put them in their real places on the tree of truth.
@DarkB1ueKnight Yes, this little novel is brilliant in its perspectives and implications. Sort of mid-point between Al-Ghazali and Ibn Rushd. I have begun to read parts of it in the original Arabic.
Abd Allah, it is salafists and the rationalists who despite him. But the Orthodox Muslims hail him as the Hujjat ul -Islam. The know him as a mujaddid of his time and a great Shafii scholar.
Unlike many of anti Islamic propagandists , Alghazali was a genius man of his time . He was not only just a cleric man but he was a big thinker . he wrote more than 200 books included multi volumes books . he wrote in many fields included : theology and low and islamics knowledge / Alghazali did amazing think : he was INFLUENCED BY Sufism in his thoughts and his his confrontation with Philosophers at his time like IBN AL ROSHD (AVEROSSES) was very intellectual clashes that he wrote his famous book : Tahafut Alphalasifa . in the other side IBN Al ROSHD answered him by another book : THAFUT AL TAHAFUT. that's mean Alghazali was a great thinker in his time and a huge legacy that he alone wrote more than 200 books more than all of the European renaissance till the 18 th century allll together /
@musa78692 I've listened to tons of lectures by Sk. Abdul Hakim and I've also read a few of his books. All of them have been extremely beneficial to me. They have been extremely uplifting spiritually and I haven't herd a single thing he has said that would be contradictory to Islam. Some random person posting incoherent comments on a youtube video can not repudiate my faith in Sk. Abdul Hamid's teachings. He is a great and invaluable asset to Islam especially in the west. Salaam and Peace.
It is a complete exaggeration to say that he is the greatest mind of Islamic civilization. Most Muslims would have given that credit to the Prophet1! :) Anyway, there were others whose breadth of knowledge was even wider an deeper. Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, Abu Ali Ibn Sina, Naseeruddin al-Tuusi, al-Farabi and other examples, who covered even more knowledge than Ghazali as they covered mathematics, medicine, languages, poetry, physiology, mineralogy, philosophy, logic, theology etc. Ihya Uluumiddin has severe limitations and cannot hope to encompass all of human knowledge. No single book or series can. BTW, Ibn Sina's "kitaab-ush-Shifaa" (The Book of Healing) is the single biggest work written by one person! And Ghazali's "tahafat-ul-falasifah" (The Incoherence of the Philosophers) has already been answered by Ibn Rushd's "tahafat-ut-tahafah" ((The Incoherence of the Incoherence)).
no these are not just claims. Islam was at the forefront of progress in mathematics, astronomy & medicine, and various other achievements when suddenly it all stopped. There was a sudden change of thought within the Islamic world. This is fact. It is also fact that Al-Gazali's ideas on occasionalism, that everything that happens is the will of god, greatly influenced this period. When god is the answer to everything it means you no longer have to look anywhere else. Thus progress ends...
Al Ghazali was so misogynistic and racist. Read his book about marriage in the Ihya Uloom to get a feel of his thinking. The words "Ugly" and "Black" are frequently used together, and women are often demeaned. Even though our Prophet Muhammad PBUH sent an excellent example, I don't blame entirely blame Al Ghazali for not following that example as he was, after all, a man of his time. However, I do hold the current scholars accountable for not acknowledging this sad shortcoming. They need to acknowledge that while Al Ghazali is very good in several aspects, but given his tendency to misogyny and racism, he should really not be taken as the end all be all in matter of religion. If they don't, it gives the impression they accept and promote the same racist misogynistic thinking.
sure, certain scientific and mathematical truths (1+1=2 for example) may not have been seen as wrong but the freethinking & logical reasoning used to advance these truths into more complex equations were. The Islamic Golden Age was built on hellenistic (greek) scientific practices and logic. In taking this away Islam collapsed into an age of ignorance. Same thing happened to the Christian empires though, unlike Islam, they were able to reform and thereby enter an age of enlightenment.
Algebra, medicine, etc were mainly developed within the Islamic Golden Age, when Islam was influenced by hellenistic ideas. That which was already developed was seen as useful but the thought process which allowed for new developments was what was abandoned. It was by no means solely him responsible but his ideas definitely planted a seed. Muslims who adopted & enforced these ideas, perhaps even beyond his intentions are to blame too. I appreciate the civil conversation :)
The Great Imam Hamid al-Ghazali of 12th century Baghdad. It's truly amazing. Arabs would be ruling the world had it not been for this Imam. He declared Algebra a tool of the devil. He threw Baghdad the center of Intellect and Knowledge in the World into the dark ages. Persians/Arabs invented our numbering system, Algebra, Science, Astronomy & advances in Medicine, etc. We studied this great Cradle of Civilization in Jr. High School. The Middle East never recovered. /watch?v=tIMifWU5ucU
The Greek philosophical traditions built the foundations of science, math, & philosophy. They were among the most advanced & forward thinking people of their day. Ghazali wanted Islam to flourish in it's own right instead of simply adopting the ideas of a much earlier non-islamic culture. In doing so he was influential in moving Islam away from a system that worked to a system that didn't & still doesn't to this day.
He not only pointed out the errors of free thinking but endorsed unquestioning obedience to god. Nothing good can come of that. The siege was indeed a catalyst, it was seen as a sign from god that muslims had moved away from Islam in looking to science & medicine, thus they were abandoned in favour of strict observation of Islam. Ghazali's advocation of taqlid over Itjihad, the Islamic philosophy that gave rise to the Golden Age, definitely had been influential in coming to this conclusion.
If it wasn't for al-Ghazali, Islam would be among the most advanced cultures in the world today. But he had to lead the Arabs away from science and into pure dogma which has lead to the middle east and north africa becoming the melting pot it is today. Stay classy Islam...
TheFreeThinkingMan seems to be living in delusion. By refusing to understand that God is the Omnipotent and is unquestionable, man has delved deep into anarchy.
The religious perspective is insignificant when your ideology results in cultural regression &/or stagnation. Ghazali preferred taqlid to Itjihad. Thinking deeply may have been permissible within the bounds of his theologically based philosophy but to think beyond that was very much apposed. Everything was a sign from god. This is the whole bases of theological occasionalism. Everything happens because god allows it.
Your missing the point. Science is built on questioning & skepticism. That's why scientific understanding always changes. Ghazali was fine with questioning this process but not with questioning his own theology.God was unquestionable. Islam was unquestionable. It is these sort of ideas which are antithetical to scientific advancement. Entering a spiritual realm does not build computers, engines, & space shuttles. Science does & science is about observation of this reality.
Is it not obvious that Al-Ghazli did not find truth in Islam and sought out philosophy to fill the void? Clearly Islam is lacking in basic understand of what and who God could be.
mohanad ghazi A religion that cannot discuss basic ideas is not a true religion. Islam is a control means used to have power and gain over people. Islam is not from God. It is Satanic. It is pure evil. Mohammad was a liar and fraud from the beginning.
+seaplaneguy weird how you keep judging islam and i'm 100% sure that you have never opened a book in Islamic Theology , a theology that William Lane Craige keep copying & quoting when he stand in a stage against Athiests And probably you didn't know Al-Ghazali before this video so please STFU
achilleskocaeli Ibn Rushd (Averroes) wrote a refutation of Al-Ghazali's work entitled The Incoherence of the Incoherence (Tahāfut al-Tahāfut) in which he defends the doctrines of the philosophers and criticizes al-Ghazali's own arguments. It is written as a sort of dialogue: Averroes quotes passages by al-Ghazali and then responds to them.
achilleskocaeli You got that from Neil degrasse Tyson didnt you lol Hes a physicist. History isnt his specialty. I almost believed him myself so I cant blame u
that chap seems to have a problem with smiling (constipation, or the mere fact of discussing with a half human being??): islam (and paranoïa in general) takes itself so seriously (being frightened by the fear of ridicule, as Muhammad was!) , to make up for the fact that it is the most grotesque and stupid imposture to have disfigured the face of mankind... It is also part of the intimidating and threatening method of islam...(the Quran being "the Book of Threats!) contrary to what is written underneath, islam AS SUCH was NEVER at the forefront of mathematics and science: its area of birth had the geographical chance to inherit from hellenic, hellenistic, chinese, indian, egyptian, persian, christian, jewish, etc...science and philosophy. Many great minds in islamic lands were recent muslims or non-muslims. Arabic numbers, for example, are indian. and religion had a very little and very indirect share in that activity. But islam, that empty, heinous and childish dogma, only exists through propaganda, and it has been using that period of scientific achievements in the middle-ages, in the service of its proselytism. (do we ever talk about "christian" science?). Islam is indeed the religion of a merchant and is to spirituality what coca-cola is to a great wine! In fact, islam only needed a few centuries to sterilize the rich inheritance of antiquity: let us remember Averroes, exiled by the oulemas and military, but fortunately recovered by western culture. To-days's converts to islam are people with a deep hatred of their own culture, usually because that culture never admired them enough: they are usuallly mediocre, narcissistic people, and naturally heinous and envious: islam is therefore THE religion for such paranoid personalities!!! Islam is the enemy of science: PROOF: Quran 2:2: "This is the Book about which there is no doubt"! While science (and tolerance) are based upon systematic and permanent DOUBT!!!
@nidieu nimaitre You have a lot of problems with islam/ a highly subjective reading of history. Your arguments seem to be driven by emotion unlike science. I mean seriously, you're the one that is propagating "empty, heinous childish" dogma.
I always enjoy listening to Abdal Hakim Murad. May Allah bless him and increase him in knowledge and wisdom.
Ameen. (Ya Kashiful Khurab Thumm Ameen.)
Abdal Hakim Murad is an authority on Islamic Sufism and his contribution in terms of lectures and films on myriad subjects of Sufism. His documentary on Hujjatul Islam Moulana Gazali(RA) is incredible. his convincing power and indepth knowledge has made him a distinguished scholar. May Allah bless him and his companions.
If you start reading Ihya of Imam Ghazali, you will feel like sitting in front of a great saint. You will feel peace. It will move you. It will transform you. Any doubt? Try to read it! See for yourself...
no doubt,i think ihya is just a pure masterpiece
Very true. There were very few people on this Earth like Ghazali.
TMA yep. do find the original translation though. there are a few individuals who have altered the books
how can i got ???
Where to buy ihya ?
There is a pivotal or central element in this great religion that sums up the whole of it, which is the love of God the Almighty and his Noble messenger as a role model. And the rest is a mere details. That's it.
If a non-muslim listens to his speech he might get converted.
I, myself have seen an academic-looking women getting converted by Sheik Abdul Hakim in Cambridge Mosque 3 months ago
ربنا يحفظك ويثبتك وبارك فيك وجزاك الله خيرا
Thats a great vid, thanks for all !!
I like his accent. Sounds so soothing. Even for non British speaker like me
Dr. Winter /Murad explanation on Al Ghazali is remarkable
My left ear really enjoyed this.
brilliant, he is just amazing Mashallah.
I wish I live in England. I will go to him learn and learn..learn.
Me too bro= Hope you get the chance Insha Allah.
Masha'Allah great questions and amazing answers
THIS GUY IS BORN ENGLISH AND HAS ALOT OF FAR RIGHT ANCESTORY IT IS AMAZING HOW HE ESTABLISHES AND GOES IN DEPTH INTO ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION
Far-right ancestry? He's going back to his roots in that case.
Regrettably he is also quite confused, esp. where history is concerned!
:) Both of my ears emjoy it.
The truth lies in the heart of a great scholar who managed (by the grace of God) to collect and pick all its (the truth) real parts from among a huge amount of information, and put them in their real places on the tree of truth.
you can tell kristine still has her natural presenting skills from her mtv days... ell done sister
super
I really love and follow imam ghazali
@DarkB1ueKnight Yes, this little novel is brilliant in its perspectives and implications. Sort of mid-point between Al-Ghazali and Ibn Rushd. I have begun to read parts of it in the original Arabic.
Dude, Musa, read the Tahafah. He's right on point.
thank you for this video on Imam Ghazali. can you please do a video series on Ibn Arabi?
I am commenting to a 9 year old comment ,wow
Ibn Al arabi had a very strange phylosaphy
kalam has been in the muslim world since Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari and from it came the golden age of islam
The Irony of Ghazalis legacy is that both the Orthodox salafis and the Rationalists despise him
Abd Allah which is like a tiny portion of Ahl Sunnah Wal Jama'ah
Abd Allah, it is salafists and the rationalists who despite him. But the Orthodox Muslims hail him as the Hujjat ul -Islam. The know him as a mujaddid of his time and a great Shafii scholar.
Kindly, please do not get split by becoming FIRKA... We are Muslims and we worship Allah the Greatest and our Prophet is Muhammad S A W.
@S Mavi You are right.Thank you for saying it.
@@znatim Well said!
Unlike many of anti Islamic propagandists , Alghazali was a genius man of his time . He was not only just a cleric man but he was a big thinker . he wrote more than 200 books included multi volumes books . he wrote in many fields included : theology and low and islamics knowledge / Alghazali did amazing think : he was INFLUENCED BY Sufism in his thoughts and his his confrontation with Philosophers at his time like IBN AL ROSHD (AVEROSSES) was very intellectual clashes that he wrote his famous book : Tahafut Alphalasifa . in the other side IBN Al ROSHD answered him by another book : THAFUT AL TAHAFUT. that's mean Alghazali was a great thinker in his time and a huge legacy that he alone wrote more than 200 books more than all of the European renaissance till the 18 th century allll together /
Just why was Averroes so harsh on Al Ghazali in the Destructio? Seems like they both had brilliant minds.
@onedaysnotice44 lol i just realized my right headphone is busted.
Whats the name of the interviewer
@musa78692 I've listened to tons of lectures by Sk. Abdul Hakim and I've also read a few of his books. All of them have been extremely beneficial to me. They have been extremely uplifting spiritually and I haven't herd a single thing he has said that would be contradictory to Islam.
Some random person posting incoherent comments on a youtube video can not repudiate my faith in Sk. Abdul Hamid's teachings. He is a great and invaluable asset to Islam especially in the west.
Salaam and Peace.
What about Ibn Roshd, Tim?
@afthefragile I agree
@DarkB1ueKnight You could say I am a philosopher of sorts, but I follow Ibn Tufayl and not Ibn Rushd or Al Ghazali
@afthefragile Well said! Same applies to Hamza Yusuf.
I agree. He is the epitomy that shows the world that this nationalism of "Europeaness" is nonsense.
@musa78692 because they don't sit well with your opinion..?
I Love Imam Ghazali.....
Why was he so harsh to Mulla Sadra ?
Imam ghazali was a Sufi yet he was so harsh to everyone !
His character surprises me a lot
Imam al-ghazali died 900 years ago
mulla sadra died 370 years ago
you're missing some thing !
if only we were to start with
the first letter of the Alphabet
salaam
Why he is winter not Hakim Mrad?
It is a complete exaggeration to say that he is the greatest mind of Islamic civilization. Most Muslims would have given that credit to the Prophet1! :)
Anyway, there were others whose breadth of knowledge was even wider an deeper. Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, Abu Ali Ibn Sina, Naseeruddin al-Tuusi, al-Farabi and other examples, who covered even more knowledge than Ghazali as they covered mathematics, medicine, languages, poetry, physiology, mineralogy, philosophy, logic, theology etc.
Ihya Uluumiddin has severe limitations and cannot hope to encompass all of human knowledge. No single book or series can.
BTW, Ibn Sina's "kitaab-ush-Shifaa" (The Book of Healing) is the single biggest work written by one person! And Ghazali's "tahafat-ul-falasifah" (The Incoherence of the Philosophers) has already been answered by Ibn Rushd's "tahafat-ut-tahafah" ((The Incoherence of the Incoherence)).
no these are not just claims. Islam was at the forefront of progress in mathematics, astronomy & medicine, and various other achievements when suddenly it all stopped. There was a sudden change of thought within the Islamic world. This is fact. It is also fact that Al-Gazali's ideas on occasionalism, that everything that happens is the will of god, greatly influenced this period. When god is the answer to everything it means you no longer have to look anywhere else. Thus progress ends...
I don’t hold any religious scholars to be taken seriously especially to stop progress in the sciences.
@@rodneysettle8106 why are u saying he was the reason muslims stop science
"Mindless drone"
Al Ghazali was so misogynistic and racist. Read his book about marriage in the Ihya Uloom to get a feel of his thinking. The words "Ugly" and "Black" are frequently used together, and women are often demeaned. Even though our Prophet Muhammad PBUH sent an excellent example, I don't blame entirely blame Al Ghazali for not following that example as he was, after all, a man of his time. However, I do hold the current scholars accountable for not acknowledging this sad shortcoming. They need to acknowledge that while Al Ghazali is very good in several aspects, but given his tendency to misogyny and racism, he should really not be taken as the end all be all in matter of religion. If they don't, it gives the impression they accept and promote the same racist misogynistic thinking.
@DarkB1ueKnight Just like our Western philosophers
sure, certain scientific and mathematical truths (1+1=2 for example) may not have been seen as wrong but the freethinking & logical reasoning used to advance these truths into more complex equations were. The Islamic Golden Age was built on hellenistic (greek) scientific practices and logic. In taking this away Islam collapsed into an age of ignorance. Same thing happened to the Christian empires though, unlike Islam, they were able to reform and thereby enter an age of enlightenment.
TheFreeThinkingMan +,you are very right
Algebra, medicine, etc were mainly developed within the Islamic Golden Age, when Islam was influenced by hellenistic ideas. That which was already developed was seen as useful but the thought process which allowed for new developments was what was abandoned.
It was by no means solely him responsible but his ideas definitely planted a seed. Muslims who adopted & enforced these ideas, perhaps even beyond his intentions are to blame too.
I appreciate the civil conversation :)
The Great Imam Hamid al-Ghazali of 12th century Baghdad. It's truly amazing.
Arabs would be ruling the world had it not been for this Imam.
He declared Algebra a tool of the devil.
He threw Baghdad the center of Intellect and Knowledge in the World into the dark ages.
Persians/Arabs invented our numbering system, Algebra, Science, Astronomy & advances in Medicine, etc. We studied this great Cradle of Civilization in Jr. High School.
The Middle East never recovered. /watch?v=tIMifWU5ucU
The Greek philosophical traditions built the foundations of science, math, & philosophy. They were among the most advanced & forward thinking people of their day. Ghazali wanted Islam to flourish in it's own right instead of simply adopting the ideas of a much earlier non-islamic culture. In doing so he was influential in moving Islam away from a system that worked to a system that didn't & still doesn't to this day.
He not only pointed out the errors of free thinking but endorsed unquestioning obedience to god. Nothing good can come of that.
The siege was indeed a catalyst, it was seen as a sign from god that muslims had moved away from Islam in looking to science & medicine, thus they were abandoned in favour of strict observation of Islam. Ghazali's advocation of taqlid over Itjihad, the Islamic philosophy that gave rise to the Golden Age, definitely had been influential in coming to this conclusion.
Kalam is failure.
If it wasn't for al-Ghazali, Islam would be among the most advanced cultures in the world today. But he had to lead the Arabs away from science and into pure dogma which has lead to the middle east and north africa becoming the melting pot it is today. Stay classy Islam...
that's Neil Tyson's crap
NOT true by the way
TheFreeThinkingMan seems to be living in delusion. By refusing to understand that God is the Omnipotent and is unquestionable, man has delved deep into anarchy.
The religious perspective is insignificant when your ideology results in cultural regression &/or stagnation. Ghazali preferred taqlid to Itjihad. Thinking deeply may have been permissible within the bounds of his theologically based philosophy but to think beyond that was very much apposed.
Everything was a sign from god. This is the whole bases of theological occasionalism. Everything happens because god allows it.
Your missing the point. Science is built on questioning & skepticism. That's why scientific understanding always changes. Ghazali was fine with questioning this process but not with questioning his own theology.God was unquestionable. Islam was unquestionable. It is these sort of ideas which are antithetical to scientific advancement. Entering a spiritual realm does not build computers, engines, & space shuttles. Science does & science is about observation of this reality.
Is it not obvious that Al-Ghazli did not find truth in Islam and sought out philosophy to fill the void? Clearly Islam is lacking in basic understand of what and who God could be.
Clueless comment.
citizenOfNowhere777
I agree, your comment is clueless
please shut up
mohanad ghazi
A religion that cannot discuss basic ideas is not a true religion. Islam is a control means used to have power and gain over people. Islam is not from God. It is Satanic. It is pure evil. Mohammad was a liar and fraud from the beginning.
+seaplaneguy weird how you keep judging islam and i'm 100% sure that you have never opened a book in Islamic Theology , a theology that William Lane Craige keep copying & quoting when he stand in a stage against Athiests
And probably you didn't know Al-Ghazali before this video so please STFU
Al Gazali destroyed the positive thinking in Islam and caused the fundamentalists to grow
You didn't understand Gazali then.
Mandy Swe I understood Gazali. I suppose you are just exaggerating him..
achilleskocaeli Ibn Rushd (Averroes) wrote a refutation of Al-Ghazali's work entitled The Incoherence of the Incoherence (Tahāfut al-Tahāfut) in which he defends the doctrines of the philosophers and criticizes al-Ghazali's own arguments. It is written as a sort of dialogue: Averroes quotes passages by al-Ghazali and then responds to them.
achilleskocaeli You got that from Neil degrasse Tyson didnt you lol Hes a physicist. History isnt his specialty. I almost believed him myself so I cant blame u
David Carvalho And it's widely acknowledged that those refutations had not been that impressive
that chap seems to have a problem with smiling (constipation, or the mere fact of discussing with a half human being??): islam (and paranoïa in general) takes itself so seriously (being frightened by the fear of ridicule, as Muhammad was!) , to make up for the fact that it is the most grotesque and stupid imposture to have disfigured the face of mankind...
It is also part of the intimidating and threatening method of islam...(the Quran being "the Book of Threats!)
contrary to what is written underneath, islam AS SUCH was NEVER at the forefront of mathematics and science: its area of birth had the geographical chance to inherit from hellenic, hellenistic, chinese, indian, egyptian, persian, christian, jewish, etc...science and philosophy. Many great minds in islamic lands were recent muslims or non-muslims. Arabic numbers, for example, are indian. and religion had a very little and very indirect share in that activity.
But islam, that empty, heinous and childish dogma, only exists through propaganda, and it has been using that period of scientific achievements in the middle-ages, in the service of its proselytism. (do we ever talk about "christian" science?).
Islam is indeed the religion of a merchant and is to spirituality what coca-cola is to a great wine!
In fact, islam only needed a few centuries to sterilize the rich inheritance of antiquity: let us remember Averroes, exiled by the oulemas and military, but fortunately recovered by western culture.
To-days's converts to islam are people with a deep hatred of their own culture, usually because that culture never admired them enough: they are usuallly mediocre, narcissistic people, and naturally heinous and envious: islam is therefore THE religion for such paranoid personalities!!!
Islam is the enemy of science:
PROOF: Quran 2:2: "This is the Book about which there is no doubt"!
While science (and tolerance) are based upon systematic and permanent DOUBT!!!
@nidieu nimaitre You have a lot of problems with islam/ a highly subjective reading of history. Your arguments seem to be driven by emotion unlike science. I mean seriously, you're the one that is propagating "empty, heinous childish" dogma.