Al-Ghazzali's The Alchemy of Happiness Abridged

Translated by Claud Field As a practical mystic, Ghazzali's aim was to make man better by leading him from a merely rational acquiescence in the stereotype creed of Islam to a real knowledge of God. The first four chapters of his monumental The Alchemy of Happiness (Kimiya-i-Sa'adat) are a commentary on the famous Hadith: "He who knows himself knows his Lord"