About The Book Bidayat al-Hidaya is Imam al-Ghazali's practical beginner's manual on the daily disciplines of worship and the cultivation of character. Composed before the Ihya as a seed-text for it, the work covers the practical disciplines that the wayfarer needs from the moment he wakes: the manners of rising, of wudu, of salat, of the daily Quran portion, of dealing with people, of work, of eating, of sleep — and the inner disciplines that accompany them. About The Author Imam Abu Hamid Muhammad b. Muhammad al-Ghazali (450-505 AH / 1058-1111 CE), Hujjat al-Islam (the Proof of Islam), is among the most influential thinkers in the history of Islam. Born in Tus in Khurasan, he studied under al-Juwayni at Nishapur and rose to teach at the Nizamiyya college in Baghdad before withdrawing into a long spiritual retreat from which he emerged with Ihya Ulum al-Din. His combination of mastery in fiqh, kalam, falsafa, and tasawwuf — and his willingness to subject each to scrutiny in the light of revealed knowledge — set the pattern for later Sunni intellectual life. عن الكتاب "بداية الهداية" للإمام الغزالي دليلٌ عَمَلي للمبتدئ في عبادات اليوم وآداب النفس. كَتَبَه قبل "الإحياء" كأنّما هو بَذْره الأوّل. يتناول الكتابُ الآداب العملية التي يحتاجها السالك من ساعة استيقاظه. عن المؤلف الإمام أبو حامد الغزالي (٤٥٠-٥٠٥ هـ)، حجّةُ الإسلام، من أعظم مفكِّري الإسلام في كلّ عصر. وُلد بطُوس بخراسان، وتتلمذ على إمام الحرمين الجويني بنيسابور، ودَرَّس بالنظاميّة ببغداد، ثم اعتزل في رياضة روحية طويلة صنَّف بعدها "إحياء علوم الدين".
