Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

Life Under The Grace of Ethics

Author: Ayatullah Makarim Shirazi
Translator: Monir Shafiei
Publisher: www.alhassanain.org/english
Category:

• What we are looking for in this book?
• Translator's Preface
• Ethic and Training
• Is it possible to alter individuals' morality and mentality through training?
• Ill-humour is a sort of disease
• Purification of carnal soul or the greater warfare
• Prosperity and happiness
• What is prosperity?
• Does prosperity have only a spiritual aspect?
• Individual and Social Morality
• Big Mistake
• Way of treatment of Moral Deviations
• Hygiene of morality
• 1- Avoiding poisonous and suspicious associations
• 2- Correcting Environment
• 3- Emigration and escaping from tainted environments
• Notes
• Quadruple principles of ethics in view of the Ancients
• Studying and criticism
• Scale for evaluation of good and bad morality
• Effect of seclusion and dissociability in morality
• Arguments of advocators of seclusion and association
• Disadvantages of seclusion and dissociation
• Exceptional cases in which seclusion is permitted
• Vigilance and self-examination or studying incentives and consequences
• Notes
• First step in purification of ethic after familiarity with alphabet of this science
• Tongue is interpreter of heart and key of personality
• Thirty great sins, which originate from tongue
• Silence and reticence
• Honesty, the most manifest sign of personality
• Value and importance of truthfulness
• Miraculous results of truthfulness
• Lie, source of all sins
• Lie is not compatible with belief
• Lie makes man improvident
• The liar does not trust even in himself
• Source of lie
• Way of treating lie
• Lie in exceptional cases
• What is equivocation?
• A new interpretation about equivocation
• Notes
• Slander, Dangerous weapon of cowards
• The most important motives for slander
• Dangers of slander
• 1- Slander in view of Holy Qur’an
• 2- Slander is not compatible with belief
• 3- Slander is considered as spreading obscenity
• 4- The corruption of slander is more severe than adultery
• 5- Slander hinders acceptance of deeds and prayers
• 6- Slander is not compatible with Islamic brotherhood
• 7- Slander destroys good deeds
• 8- Slander devaluates worships and services
• 9- Slander excludes man from God's protection and includes him in Satan's protection
• 10- A part of ill effects of slander remains even after repentance
• Social and individual vices of slander
• Ill- effects of slander in social view
• Ill-effects of slander in individual view
• Limits and types of slander
• 1- Types of slander
• 2- Slanders mixed with another sin
• 3- Slander has a “Right of People” aspect
• Exceptions of slander
• 5- Petition and removal of injustice and restoring right
• Notes
• Suspicion and mistrust
• Immunity from mistrust is the requisite of a safe community
• Sources of suspicion and pessimism
• Social losses of mistrust
• Individual losses of suspicion
• Ways of countering with suspicion
• Methods of treating suspicion
• Reminder
• Notes
• A Healthy Society under the Grace of Ethics
• Without ethic, the plan of a healthy society is defeated
• Privileges of man's social life
• Source of formation of society
• Social value
• Islam and social concerns
• Social seclusion
• Reaction of dissociability and monkery in retardation of individual and society
• Islam and Monkery
• Historical origin
• Mental origin
• Monkery among Christians
• Notes
• Social units
• 1- Race
• 2- Geographical area
• 3- Ideology
• The most powerful social relation
• 1- Facility of communication means
• 2- Unity of ideology
• 3- Perfect mental and moral development
• Islam and global unique society
• How to create a mental unity
• Spirit of unity in Islamic instructions
• 1- Moral development
• 2- Forgiveness and pardon
• 3- Replying vice with goodness
• 4- Stopping violence
• Notes
• Way of influencing on the hearts
• What we shall do for our advices to be influential on the heart of others?
• Shall we be fact seeking or aggressive?
• Notes
• Factors effective in influencing on the hearts
• Seeking excellence in discussion or dispute and fussing
• Stopping selfishness
• Provoking positive affections
• Belief in one's own speech
• Effect of virtue of the speaker
• Notes
• Relation of ethics and education
• What is education?
• Qur’an and education
• Personality and character
• Relation of education and personality
• Factors comprising personality
• Notes