Self Building (An Islamic Guide for Spiritual Migration towards God)
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Author: Ayatullah Ibrahim Amini
Translator: Sayyid Hussein Alamdar
Publisher: Ansariyan Publications – Qum
Category: Miscellaneous Books
Self Building (An Islamic Guide for Spiritual Migration towards God)
- Translator’s Foreword
- Notes
- Biography of Ayatullah Ibrahim Amini
- Note
- Preface
- An Important Reminder
- Note
- Self-Purification, the Main Goal of Divine Messengers
- And said
- 1. Self-awareness and Self-building
- 2. Human-soul and Animal-self
- 3. Human Virtues
- 4. Esoteric Life
- 5. What to Be?
- Notes
- The Heart in Quran
- 1. Reasoning and Comprehension
- 2. Un-comprehending and Reasoning
- 3. Faith
- 4. Blasphemy and Disbelief
- 5. Dissension
- 6. To Receive Guidance
- 7. Negligence
- 8. Certainty and Tranquility
- 9. Anxiety and Conflict
- 10. Blessing and Kindness
- 11. Hot-temper and Cruelty
- Soundness and Sickness of Heart
- Heart in Traditions
- 1) The Heart of an Unbeliever
- 2) The Heart of a Believer
- 3) The Heart of a Believer- Occasionally Contaminated
- Hard-heartedness
- Heart's Physicians
- Refinement and Perfection of Self
- Notes
- Evacuation or Self-refinement (Takhliyeh)
- Self-refinement
- 1. Negligence from the Disease
- 2. Diagnosis of Self-sickness
- 2.1. Strengthening of Reason
- 2.2. Thinking before Action
- 2.3. Being Pessimistic towards the Self
- 2.4. Consulting Spiritual Physicians
- 2.5. Consulting a Wise Friend
- 2.6. Learning from Other's Faults
- 2.7. Learning from Criticism
- 2.8. Symptoms of Heart's Sickness
- 3. Decision for Treatment
- 4. Control and Domination of Self
- Notes
- Self-Struggle
- 1. Greater Struggle (Jihad al-Akbar)
- A. First Reason
- B. Second Reason
- C. Third Reason
- 2. Struggle and Divine Assistance
- 3. Man, His own Physician
- Notes
- The Stages of Self-refinement
- 1. Prevention
- 2. Sudden Renunciation
- 3. Gradual Renunciation
- Notes
- Things which are Helpful for Self-refinement
- 1. Meditation
- 2. Reward and Punishment
- 3. Dignity of Human Essence and Strengthening Human Virtues
- 4. Renunciation of Bad Company
- 5. Avoiding Potential Blunders
- Notes
- Egotism - the Root of all Evils
- 1. Worldliness, the Source of all Sins
- 2. What is World?
- 3. World's Reality
- 4. The Next Worlders
- 5. The Worldly Beings
- 6. The Worldly and Next Worlders
- Notes
- Piety, the Most Important Factor for Purification
- 1. Piety, Objective Behind the Divine Commands
- 2. Definition of Piety
- 3. Piety and Seclusion
- 4. Piety and Insight
- 5. Piety and Victory over the Difficulties
- 6. Piety and Freedom
- 7. Piety and Treatment of Diseases
- Notes
- The Characteristics of Pious (Sermon of Hammam)
- Note
- Supervision - the Most Important Factor for Self-restraint
- 1. Recordings of Deeds
- 2. Accounting on the Judgment Day
- 3. Self-scrutiny Before the Judgment Day
- 4. How to Scrutinize?
- 4.1. Making Commitments (Mosharateh)
- 4.2. Supervision and Control (Moraqebat)
- 4.3. Accounting of Deeds
- Notes
- Repentance and Self-cleansing
- 1. The Need for Repentance
- 2. Acceptance of Repentance
- 3. What is Repentance?
- 4. Things which Require Repentance
- 4.1. Moral Sins
- 4.2. Practical Sins
- Notes
- Nourishment and Perfection of Self (Tahliyeh)
- 1. God's Nearness
- 2. Meanings of God's Nearness
- 1. Nearness Relative to Place
- 2. Nearness Relative to Time
- 3. Metaphorical Nearness
- Faith, the Foundation of Spiritual Perfection
- The Means of Perfection and God's Nearness
- First Means -God's Remembrance (Dikhr)
- A) The Aim of Invocation (Dikhr)
- B) The Degrees of Invocation (Dhikr)
- Notes
- The Effects and Indications of Invocation (Dhikr)
- 1. Commitment for God's Obedience
- God-Almighty said in Holy Qur’an
- 2. Humility
- 3. Excitement for Worshipping
- 4. Tranquility and Assurance
- 5. God's Attention towards the Servant
- First Reason
- Second Reason
- 6. God's Love towards the Servant
- 7. The Most Important Effects
- Notes
- The Means of Attainment
- 1. Meditation and Reasoning
- 2. Deliberations over the Qur’anic Verses
- 3. Worshipping
- 4. Invocations and Supplications
- Notes
- Instructions
- 1. Instructions of the Commander of the Faithful Imam ‘Ali (a.s.)
- 2. Instructions of Imam al-Sadiq
- 3. Instructions of ‘Allamah Majlisi
- 4. Letter of Akhund-Mulla Husayn Quli Hamdani
- 5. Instructions of Mirza Javad Agha Malaki Tabrizi
- 6. Instructions of Sheikh Najmuddin
- Notes
- Obstacles of the Path
- 1. First Obstacle: Incompetence
- 2. Second Obstacle: Worldly Attachments
- 3. Third Obstacle: Obedience of Passions
- 4. Fourth Obstacle: Overeating
- 5. Fifth Obstacle: Unnecessary Talks
- 6. Sixth Obstacle -Love for Self (Hubbe-Zat)
- 7. Seventh Obstacle: Indecisiveness
- Notes
- Second Means, Nourishment of Moral Virtues
- Notes
- Third Means, the Righteous Deeds
- The Sincerity
- Notes
- Some Righteous Deeds
- First: Obligatory Prayers
- 1. Heart's Presence in Prayer
- 2. Degrees of Heart's Presence
- First Stage
- Second Stage
- Third Stage
- Fourth Stage
- Fifth Stage
- 3. Important Factors for Attaining Heart's Presence
- Secluded Place
- Removal of Obstacles
- Strengthening of Faith
- Remembrance of Death
- Readiness
- Second: Supererogatory Prayers (Nawafil)
- Third: Night Prayer (Salatul-Layl)
- 1. Details of Night Prayer
- 2. Etiquette of Night Prayer
- Prayer of Shafa
- Prayer of Witr
- Notes
- Fourth Means, Struggle (Jihad) and Martyrdom (Shahadat)
- A. First Dimension: The supreme Goal of the struggler
- B. Second Dimension: The magnitude of sacrifice
- Notes
- Fifth Means, Benevolence and Service to Humanity
- Notes
- Sixth Means, Supplications (Dua)
- Notes
- Seventh Means, Fast (Sawm)
- Role of Fasting in Self-Building
- Notes
- Appendix 1: A Mystical Poem (Ghazal al-Irfani) of Imam Khomeini
- Notes
- Appendix 2: Supplication of the Holy Month of Sha'ban (Munajat al-Shabaniyyah)
- Note
- Appendix 3: A Prayer
- Notes
