Imam Ghazali's Book of Counsels

Its a book that is needed for the lifetime of a muslim. Must have as a daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly remembrance.

Idries Shah mentions in 'The Sufis' that 'Ghazali was appointed a professor at the famous Nizamiyya Academy at Baghdad at the age of thirty-three. His intellect was of such an order as to be unsurpassed in Islam. For him, the real object of education was not merely to provide information, but the stimulation of an inner consciousness — a concept too revolutionary for the scholastics of the time. He propounded this theory in his Ihya-el-ulum (Revival of the Religious Sciences). As in the case of Rumi (who spoke of the limitations of poetry only when he had become a great poet) Ghazali could afford to show up scholasticism by the time he had no fewer than three hundred thousand traditions of the Prophet by heart, and was the Authority of Islam.'The Book of Counsels, consists of a number of these traditions.The kindle book is well laid out and well worth reading.