This is a part rather a beginning of a huge effort. I have been trying in vain for a long time to say something on the subject but I have been prevented largely due to the fact that I consider myself insufficiently capable.. 
Although its not true in many ways but I am still nervous to get all the attention and then not be able to fill in my own shoes. Nevertheless, there is some mettle in this nervousness. I have to gather the right material and focus my energy towards it. The need is more important than ever before. The disparity between the school of thoughts is widening, we are drowning in utter “jahalat” and very nice people are distancing themselves away from belief and damaging their own chances of happiness in this life. Mind you this very life. So to begin with .. just a quote I thought would come in handy leter on.
“The life of al-Ghazali has been thus far examined mostly as the development of his individual personality. However, since the 1950s there have appeared some new attempts to understand his life in its wider political and historical context (Watt 1963). If we accept his religious confession as sincere, then we should be careful not to reduce his thought and work entirely to non-religious factors. It may well be that al-Ghazali’s conversion from the life of an orthodox doctor to Sufism was not merely the outcome of his personal development but also a manifestation of a new stage in the understanding of faith in the historical development of Islam, from the traditional form of faith expressed in the effort to establish the kingdom of God on Earth through the shari‘a to a faith expressed as direct communion with God in Sufi mystical experience. This may be a reflection of a development in which the former type of faith had lost its relevance and become a mere formality due to the political and social confusion of the community. Al-Ghazali experienced this change during his life, and tried to revive the entire structure of the religious sciences on the basis of Sufism, while at the same time arguing for the official recognition of the latter and providing it with solid philosophical foundations.”
Ref:
www.ghazali.org
