The Alchemy of Happiness

Al-Ghazali · 1910

Ghazali taught in Baghdad and then left it, spending years travelling and keeping company with the Sufis before he wrote this. It is not an argument for a doctrine; it is a working account of what he found. He is short with people who say the right words and know nothing by them, and he keeps returning to one point: the obstruction is on our side, not in the light.