{"product_id":"the-bane-of-the-tongue","title":"The Bane Of The Tongue By Author Stated, No","description":"The Bane of Tongue (Kitab afat al-lisan) is Book 24 of the Imam al-Ghazali’             s magnum opus, I?ya? ?ulum al-din, The Revival of the Religious Sciences. Within the architecture of this monumental work, Afat al-lisan is the fourth book of the third quarter, The Ways to Perdition (Rub? al-muhlikat), in which al-Ghazali sums up in ten books (or chapters) all the human shortcomings and vices traditionally believed to lead a person into a state of loss in this world and the Next, and which in certain respects overlap with the Judeo-Christian notion of the seven deadly sins.In Book 24, al-Ghazali divides the banes (afat) or defects of the tongue, from the least to the most offensive, into twenty short chapters, each of which comprises a psychological\/spiritual analysis of how and why the particular defect might exist in a person’             s soul, examples of how it manifests itself in behavior, and practical suggestions for eliminating it from one’             s personality. The misuse of the gift of speech and language is certainly not something new, as this work, composed nearly 950 years ago, amply shows, but in this age of internet-based communication, it has taken on a new and more destructive dimension.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57578671735166,"sku":"NW9781941610688","price":24.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781941610688.jpg?v=1783106033","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/the-bane-of-the-tongue","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}