DescriptionThese pages contain the section on the “Categories of the Deluded” (Dhamm al-Ghurūr), a component of the larger masterwork Iḥyāʾ ʿUlūm al-Dīn (The Revival of the Religious Sciences). The text offers a systematic examination of self-deception in religious life, providing detailed examples of deluded individuals across four distinct social and spiritual categories. It addresses the delusions to which scholars may fall prey, the self-deception of worshippers regarding their piety, the spiritual pitfalls encountered by Sufis, and the illusions of the wealthy concerning their worldly status. For each category, the text illustrates how outward religious observance or social position can mask inner complacency and spiritual blindness. This section reveals the Iḥyāʾ’s penetrating moral psychology and its critique of hypocrisy across diverse segments of Islamic society
Extentff. 18v-62v
PlaceIslahul Uloom Arabic College, Kerala, India
Yeard. 1111
CitationKitāb Dhamm al-ghurūr, Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī, MAC8/MTM1, iii, https://ari.nus.edu.sg/arabia-asia-archives/mac8-mtm1-iii/
