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Author: Muhammad Al-Ghazzali

Al-Ghazzali describes the virtue of love of God and its true nature along with the reasons of love. He explains what longing is, its true nature and how the eye of the Hereafter is not like the eye of this world. He discusses contentment and uses it as a remedy for achieving love, the signs of love and the virtue and true nature of contentment. He concludes by saying that supplication to God is not contradictory to contentment. This is Book XXXIX of Part Four of the Alchemy of Happiness entitled The Deliverers.
About the Author
Al-Ghazzali (AD 1058-1111), the philosopher-theologian, is considered by many to be the greatest Muslim thinker after the great Companions. His life and thought played a major role in determining the ethical and spiritual values of medieval society and continues to be influential throughout the world today.