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What is Book 10 of the Iḥyāʾ?
Book 10 of Imam al-Ghazālī's Iḥyāʾ ʿUlūm al-Dīn is called The Mysteries of Regular Divisions, or the Arrangement of Litanies. It closes the first quarter of the Iḥyāʾ, Acts of Worship. Imam al-Ghazālī wrote in the 11th to 12th century. The book answers a practical question: how should a believer order the hours of the day and the night so that remembrance of Allah runs through all of them? Al-Ghazālī's answer is a set of daily devotions, arranged in order, with the rules that govern them, and a way to revive the night.
The book has two main chapters. Chapter 1 is on the virtue of devotions, their arrangement, and their regulations. Chapter 2 is on how to revive the night, its virtue, and how to make the night vigil easier. The aim, in the words of the description, is to show how structuring one's day around remembrance of Allah transforms the soul and orders the heart. At about 2.5 hours it is one of the shorter books of the quarter on worship, and it marks the conclusion of that section.
It opens with praise of Allah, who made the night and the day succeed each other for those who wish to remember or be grateful. Then it gives a picture of life as a journey. In this world, people are travellers. The first abode is the cradle and the last is the grave. The years are the stages, the days the miles, the breaths the steps, and obedience is the trade goods. Time is the capital. The reader is asked to spend that capital on remembrance before the journey ends.
Is there an English audiobook of Arrangement of Litanies?
Yes. Joyful Muslims publishes the complete Book 10: The Mysteries of Regular Divisions as an English audiobook (about 2.5 hours), translated from the Arabic, with a word-synced bilingual transcript. It covers the arrangement of daily litanies and how structuring one's day around remembrance of Allah transforms the soul and orders the heart.
Is it free to listen?
The whole library is open to everyone. Every member gets five hours of listening free each month; Joyful+ removes the time limit.
What does it cover?
Two chapters: the virtue, arrangement, and rules of daily devotions, and how to revive the night and make the night vigil easier. It is the final book of the quarter on Acts of Worship.
Last updated 2026-09-11
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