The Mysteries of Prayer for Children by Imam Al-Ghazali

By Imam Al-Ghazali, Fons Vitae Publishing, Hardback, 180 pages

This book is a part of the Ghazali Children’s Project Book Set. It contains coloured illustrations. This is a part of an educational series that contains books, workbooks and a curriculum.

This book strives to show children the canonic prayer (salat) which in addition to being one of the Five Pillars of the religion, is first and foremost an opportunity for communion with the Divinity, for focusing and concentration, and for expressing gratitude to God through words, physical postures, and inward state.

About the author:

Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali (d. 1111) was a leading scholar, jurist, and theologian of the golden age of Islam, and he remains its truest advocate in modern times. As a teacher of both inward and outward faith, he recorded these practical teachings in his forty-book compendium of Islamic knowledge.

Imam al-Ghazali was fondly referred to as the "Hujjat-ul-lslam", a Proof of Islam, is honoured as a scholar all over the world and is generally acclaimed as the most influential thinker of the Classical period of Islam.