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Being the twenty-sixth book of The Revival of the Religious
Sciences (Ihya' 'ulum al-din), The Book of the Censure of This
World (Kitab Dhamm al-dunya) seeks to persuade its reader of the
folly of worldly pleasures and possessions.To do so, al-Ghazali
begins with a collection of Islamic primary-source texts that speak
to the dangers of this world from a variety of angles. He then adds
to this collection fourteen metaphors for this world that
illustrate its perfidious nature. In a third subsection, al-Ghazali
provides an original rationale for renouncing worldly enjoyments,
and he furnishes his reader with a blueprint for determining what
constitutes 'this world' in its most dangerous sense. In a fourth
and final subsection, al-Ghazali applies a sociological theory to
enumerate the essential human vocations and identify the mechanisms
through which these lead people away from God.
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