Al-Ghazali on Patience and Thankfulness Kitab al-sabr wa'l-shukr Politics There are misunderstandings about the

There are misunderstandings about the very source-springs of human well-being the belief in the spiritual realities of existence

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Al-Ghazali on Patience and Thankfulness Kitab al-sabr wa'l-shukr Politics There are misunderstandings about theAl Ghazali on Patience and Thankfulness is a translation of the thirty second chapter of The Revival of the Religions Sciences (Ihya Ulum al Din). This chapter fills in the last of the four sections of the Ihya, the section dealing with the virtues or what is conducive to salvation. Ghazali here presents definitions for patience and its different forms; the need for patience; the degrees of patience; and why patience is considered to be half of faith.