Emotional Aspect of the Soul in Al-Ghazali's View

This essay is to consider emotional aspect of the soul in Imam Mohammad al-Ghazali's thought. This matter of subject has been studied by him for centuries before the theory of three dimensioned soul got accepted. Consideration of al-Ghazali's various discussions in his works is indicative of his significant attention to emotional aspect of the soul, although he inserted soul –aspects in two categories of "cognition and will" just like what the previous thinkers did. We can reconsider al-Ghazali's view on emotional aspect of the soul in his various discussions like the formation process of voluntary act, parts of practical knowledge (‘Elm-e-Moamele) including obligations to God (‘ibadat) and obligations to others (‘adat), vices (mohlikat) and virtues (munjiyat), and also the centralization of the subject of final happiness of human for him which organizes his moral system. Also we can consider al-Ghazali’s view in his discussion about “love” for God since the direction of his moral system is explanation and analysis of mystical virtues in which inner state is the main element among three elements-knowledge, inner state, and action, and that among all mystical virtues, divine love is in high position.