This book was one of the first works of Shaykh Muhammad al Ghazali (Born 1917 in Egypt - Died 1996 in Madinah) to be translated into English. The book describes in vivid prose how the Prophet, upon him be peace, used to remember Allah and pray to Him. Not only are the exquisitely beautiful, deeply moving, and penetrating words of the Prophet given in the English translation, but in the original Arabic as well, thus allowing those desirous of memorizing the Arabic access to the original text. The intimate relationship with Allah, which was the hallmark of the Prophet's life, becomes clear and vivid. The book's contents are immensely relevant to the life and concerns of modern man, whose life has been made barren by the present secularist machinary.

Translator: Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo is an American convert to Islam. He was chief of the Translation Bureau at the Islamic Research Institute of the International Islamic University at Islamabad, Pakistan. His translations from Arabic, Urdu, and persian, include works on tafsir, fiqh, hadith, aqidah, and other classical Islamic disciplines. Yusuf Talal was formerly advisor on Islamic Education with the Government of Pakistan, a research associate at the International Institute of Islamic thoughts (IIIT) of Herndon, Virginia, and a member of the Fiqh Council of North America. He is currently Director of the Master's Program for Imams at the newly established graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences (SISS) in Leesburg, Virginia.