{"product_id":"the-bane-of-the-tongue-book-24-of-ihya-ulum-al-din-the-revival-of-the-religious-sciences-volume-24-9781941610688","title":"The Bane of the Tongue: Book 24 of Ihya' 'Ulum Al-Din, the Revival of the Religious Sciences Volume 24","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Mohamed Fouad Aresmouk\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Fons Vitae\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Fons Vitae\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Islam - Sufi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Bane of Tongue (Kitab afat al-lisan) is Book 24 of the Imam al-Ghazali’ s magnum opus, I?ya? ?ulum al-din, The Revival of the Religious Sciences. Within the architecture of this monumental work, Afat al-lisan is the fourth book of the third quarter, The Ways to Perdition (Rub? al-muhlikat), in which al-Ghazali sums up in ten books (or chapters) all the human shortcomings and vices traditionally believed to lead a person into a state of loss in this world and the Next, and which in certain respects overlap with the Judeo-Christian notion of the seven deadly sins.In Book 24, al-Ghazali divides the banes (afat) or defects of the tongue, from the least to the most offensive, into twenty short chapters, each of which comprises a psychological\/spiritual analysis of how and why the particular defect might exist in a person’ s soul, examples of how it manifests itself in behavior, and practical suggestions for eliminating it from one’ s personality. The misuse of the gift of speech and language is certainly not something new, as this work, composed nearly 950 years ago, amply shows, but in this age of internet-based communication, it has taken on a new and more destructive dimension.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fons Vitae","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45269022965911,"sku":"9781941610688","price":1746.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781941610688.webp?v=1769257573","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-bane-of-the-tongue-book-24-of-ihya-ulum-al-din-the-revival-of-the-religious-sciences-volume-24-9781941610688","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}