When he passed away, the famous hadith collection Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī rested upon his chest.^[1]

Ibn al-Jawzīرَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه  narrates:

Imam al-Ghazālī awoke in the morning, made wudu, and offered Fajr salah. He then asked for his funeral shroud to be brought. He placed it upon his eyes and said: “The command of my Lord is upon my head and eyes.”

He turned his face towards the qibla and laid his legs straight. At this point people saw his soul had already departed. His shrine is in Ṭūs, Khurāsān, in the graveyard known as Maqābir al-Ghazālī.^[2]

Imam al-Ghazālī رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه as a mujaddid

A hadith announces, “At the start of every century, Allah shall indeed send a reviver (mujaddid) for this Ummah, to revive its religion for it.”^[3] Scholars say Imam al-Ghazālīرَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه  is the mujaddid of the fifth Islamic century.^[4]

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب                                     صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Life-changing words

Imam al-Ghazālīرَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه  was 15 years old when his father passed away. As a result, the household's financial condition became dire. Despite immense hardships, Imam al-Ghazālī attended a madrasa and began learning the sacred knowledge of Islam.

He began his early education in his hometown of Ṭūs, under the tutelage of father’s friend, Imam Aḥmad b. Muhammad Rādhkānī رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه. He then travelled to Jurjān, where he studied under Imam Abū Naṣr IsmāꜤīl رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه. Later, he journeyed to Nishapur and spent many years studying Islam under