Poetry in prose, between Quantity and Significance: the case of Al-Ghazali’s Renew your life

Abstract

This article deals with the stance of Muhammed al-Ghazali in his book « Renew Your Life » from keeping up with poetry and employing it in relation to human behavior, which was in general the subject of prose only. He has used a tremendous number of verses, and employed them according to the themes, purposes and goals to describe the human behavior, especially that related to the human psyche and what stirs it: noble motives such as patience, deliberateness, and hope, and ignoble motives such impatience, anger, and despair.

I tried methodologically to stand at the poetry verses that Imam Muhammed al-Ghazali choised and i think how it fits with the given subjects and how it fits with the examples and stories Dale Carengie bought.

No doubt, in that verses a proof which correspond to what poets needed in description people behaviors.