The Mysteries of Charity and the Mysteries of Fasting: Books 5 & 6 of the Ihya Ulum al-Din Tasawwuf This chapter falls in the

This chapter falls in the last of the four sections of the Ihya

directly translated as

he went on to become a distinguished Shafii jurist under the Mamluks

of which this manual is a compendium

The Mysteries of Charity and the Mysteries of Fasting: Books 5 & 6 of the Ihya Ulum al-Din Tasawwuf This chapter falls in theIn the Mysteries of Charity and Its Important Elements (Kitab asrar al zakat wa muhimatiha; book 5), and the Mysteries of Fasting and Its Important Elements (Kitab asrar al iyyam wa muhimatiha; book 6), of the forty books of the Revival of the Religious Sciences (Iya ulum al din), Abu amid al Ghazali explains the inner and outer meanings of charity and fasting, two pillars of worship for Muslims. These are two of the five books that deal with the