Saw the tenth episode of The Assassins seriesstarring the artist Karim Abdulazizwhich is shown on the DMC channel simultaneously with its showing on the Watch It platform, within Ramadan 2024 seriesMany interesting events, and the beginning was when Imam Al-Ghazali (Nidal Al-Shafi’i) was leaving the mosque, and he found a group of men assaulting one of the people. He asked them why this severe beating, and one of the men replied to him, “It is a damned secret.” Imam Al-Ghazali replied, saying: “It is assumed that when one of us deviates, we teach him and guide him, and we do not beat him or insult him, and there remains revenge and vengeance for him.” Who is Imam Al-Ghazali, nicknamed “Hujjat al-Islam?”
Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali al-Tusi al-Naysaburi, the Sufi al-Shafi’i al-Ash’ari, one of the notables of his time and one of the most famous Muslim scholars of the fifth century AH, (450 AH – 505 AH / 1058 AD – 1111 AD). He was a jurist, fundamentalist, and philosopher, and he was a Sufi, a Shafi’i in jurisprudence, as there was no Shafi’i at the end of his era like him.
He followed the Ash’ari school of thought, and was known as one of the founders of the Ash’ari school of theology, and one of its three origins after Abu Al-Hasan Al-Ash’ari (they were Al-Baqalani, Al-Juwayni, and Al-Ghazali).
Al-Ghazali was given many titles during his life, the most famous of which is “Hujjat al-Islam.” He also had titles such as: Zain al-Din, Hujjat al-Din, the one scholar, Mufti of the nation, Barakat al-Anam, Imam of the Imams of the Religion, and Honor of the Imams.
He had a great impact and a clear imprint in several sciences, such as philosophy, Shafi’i jurisprudence, theology, Sufism, and logic, and he left a number of books in those fields.
He was born and lived in Tus, then moved to Nishapur to accompany Abu al-Maali al-Juwayni (nicknamed the Imam of the Two Holy Mosques), from whom he learned most of the knowledge. When he reached the age of 34, he traveled to Baghdad as a teacher in the Nizamiyya school during the era of the Abbasid state at the request of the Seljuk minister Nizam al-Mulk in that period. He became widely known, and became a destination for students of Islamic law from all countries, to the point that more than 400 of the most eminent people and scholars were sitting in his gathering, listening to him and writing about his knowledge.
After 4 years of teaching, he decided to retire from people and devote himself to worship and educating himself. Influenced by the Sufism and their books, he left Baghdad secretly on a long journey of 11 years, during which he moved between Damascus, Jerusalem, Hebron, Mecca, and Medina, during which he wrote his famous book, The Revival of the Religious Sciences, as a summary of his spiritual experience. He then returned to his hometown of Tus and took up a school for jurists near his home.
After Al-Ghazali returned to Tus, he stayed there for a few years, and soon died on Monday, Jumada al-Akhirah 14, 505 AH, corresponding to December 19, 1111 AD, in “Al-Tabaran” in the city of Tus.
The series “The Assassins” starring Karim Abdel Aziz, Fathi Abdel Wahab, Nicolas Moawad, Mirna Nour El Din, Ahmed Eid, Islam Gamal, Mohamed Radwan, Sami El Sheikh, Omar El Shennawy, Nour Ihab, Suzan Najm El Din, Yasser Ali Maher, Basant Abu Pasha and a large number. Among the artists and guests of honor, it is written by Abdel Rahim Kamal, directed by Peter Mimi, and produced by Synergy Company.