SUFI MYSTIC

HIS NAME WAS ABU AHAMAD MOHAMAAD , AL-GHAZALI. HE WAS11TH CENCURY SUFI
THEOLOGIAN AND MYSTIC. SUFISM IS A WAY TO THE DEVINE , BY INNER
PURIFICATION. DHIKR , CHANTING HOLY NANES OF THE SPIRIT/GOD IS A
METHOD OF SELF CLEANSING TOWARDS GOD. AT A VERY YOUNG AGE , AL-GHAZALI
QUALIFIED AS THEOLOGY PROFESSOR IN A GREAT COLLEGE IN PERSIA , NOW
IRAN. HIS FAITH WAS ISLAM. FEELING HIS WORK , FAME AND LIFE WERE NOT
PLEASING TO THE TRUTH , HE RESIGNED , LED A LIFE OF A BEGGER , IN
SEARCH FOR OF GOD AND PEACE. ELEVEN YEARS PASSED , TRAVELING TO PLACES
, INCLUDING JERUSALEM. BACK HOME , HIS SEARCH PRODUCED MANY RELIGIOUS
, PHILOSOPHICAL AND MYSTICAL WORKS. HIS BOOKS WERE MISUNDERSTOOD AND
SEVERAL WERE DESTROYED. SOME WERE SAVED BY BRITISH MESEUM. ONE BOOK
SCIENCE OF RELIGIOUS LEARNIG GIVES HIS SPIRITUAL AND MYSTICAL INSIGHT.
HE WAS THE ONE WHO MADE SUFISM ACCEPTABLE TO ISLAM.