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O Son! A Translation of Ayyuhal Walad
Paperback
Publisher: Imam Ghazali Publishing
Published: Aug 15 2025
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.26 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
One of al-Ghazali's advanced students wrote to the Imam with a question: From all the fields of knowledge, what will benefit us most in the grave? The student clarified that, while he could certainly find the answer to his question within al-Ghazali's longer works, such as the Ihya 'Ulum al-Din, he wished for his teacher to give him a formal opinion, short enough that he could keep it with him at all times and refer to it constantly.
Ayyuhal Walad is the great Imam's response: a personal note from al-Ghazali to his student, and by extension to anyone who desires to follow their way. Imam al-Ghazali elucidates the following for his student, and for the modern reader:
- The precise nature of the relationship between knowledge and action, and the role of each in one's striving for paradise
- The significance of the night prayer
- Some advice from Luqman the Wise to his son, and its enduring meaning and importance
- A concise definition of obedience and worship, which al-Ghazali states is the quintessence of knowledge
- The four matters that are required of a spiritual traveler
- A single hadith that contains the entirety of the knowledge of the ancients as well as the men and women of latter days
- Eight lessons that are sufficient for deliverance and salvation
Ayyuhal Walad, translated here as O Son, is designed to be read and reread, and referred to frequently throughout one's life. The reader must take note that the original recipient of this letter was a top student of Imam al-Ghazali, and therefore likely a scholar of the highest calibre himself. This book is thus invaluable simply as a record of the interaction between one of the Umma's greatest teachers and his esteemed disciple. However, al-Ghazali's prescriptions are conveyed with such clarity that any Muslim of high aspiration will benefit from this text.
This edition includes Ustadh Moustafa Elqabbany's meticulous English translation side-by-side with al-Ghazali's original Arabic epistle. This arrangement allows the English-speaking reader to get a taste of al-Ghazali's unique style, while students of Arabic may peruse the Imam's masterful Arabic prose alongside Ustadh Moustafa's elegant English rendition.
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