On Disciplining the Soul Ramadan This will make a lovely

This will make a lovely gift for that special friend

his kindness to his brothers when they came to beg for grain during the famine

where he spent his teen years learning to play guitar

spiritual crisis

On Disciplining the Soul Ramadan This will make a lovelyThe spiritual life in Islam begins with riyadat al nafs, the inner warfare against the ego. Distracted and polluted by worldliness, the lower self has a tendency to drag the human creature down into arrogance and vice. Only by a powerful effort of will can the sincere worshipper achieve the purity of soul which enables him to attain God's proximity. This translation of two chapters from The Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya' 'Ulum al Din)