Al-Ghazali on Patience and Thankfulness Kitab al-sabr wa'l-shukr Politics 4 The Recovery of a

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Al-Ghazali on Patience and Thankfulness Kitab al-sabr wa'l-shukr Politics 4 The Recovery of aAl Ghazali on Patience and Thankfulness is a translation of the thirty second chapter of The Revival of the Religions Sciences (Ihya Ulum al Din). This chapter fills in the last of the four sections of the Ihya, the section dealing with the virtues or what is conducive to salvation. Ghazali here presents definitions for patience and its different forms; the need for patience; the degrees of patience; and why patience is considered to be half of faith.