Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

Repentance: The Cradle of Mercy

This book is corrected and edited by Al-Hassanain (p) Institue for Islamic Heritage and Thought

• Introduction
• Notes
• The Divine Gifts and Man’s Responsibility 
• 1. The abundance and capacity of blessings and talents
• 2. The way of getting blessings
• 3. Aiming at blessings
• 4. Being grateful for the blessings
• 5. Warning of being ungrateful for blessings
• 6. Infiniteness of blessings
• 7. Those grateful for blessings
• 8. Badness of wasting blessings
• 9. Stinginess and not spending blessings
• 10. Disappearance of blessings
• 11. The completing of blessings
• 12. The reward of the lawful spending of blessings
• Notes
• Guilt and the ways of curing it
• The key of peace
• Guilt is a disease
• Despair is disbelief
• Curer
• Repenting is a prompt duty
• Repentance is an ethical obligation
• Notes
• Turning to Allah
• Sins and the ability to repent
• A wonderful tradition on the authority of Allah over people
• We have inherited repentance from our father Adam and mother Eve
• Sins
• The bad results of sins
• The way of true repentance
• True repentance in Imam Ali’s view
• Each sin has a special repentance
• 1. The Satan
• 2. The worldly life
• 3. Plagues
• The gift of Allah to the real repentant
• The holy Qur'an and repentance
• 1. The command of repentance
• 2. The way of the real repentance
• 3. Accepting repentance
• 4. Turning away from repentance
• 5. There as on of not accepting repentance
• The traditions and the matter of repentance
• The advantages of repentance
• Notes
• Stories of Repentant People
• The ideal woman
• The repentance of Sha’wana
• Repenting in the battlefield
• The repentance of the Jew young man
• A nomad repenting of disbelief and polytheism
• The repentance of shaqeeq al-balkhi
• The angels and the sins of the repentant
• A sinful one and the time-limit of repentance
• The sinful and the hope of repentance
• The truthful one and the repentant one
• The neighbor of Abu Baseer
• The repentance of the thief
• Repentance and beseeching
• The drunkard and repentance
• Expensive weeping of the repentant
• Showing repentance and solving problems
• The wonderful morals and the more wonderful end
• Repentance of the gravedigger
• The repentance of fudhayl al-ayyadh
• Three repentant Muslims
• Repentance of al-hurr bin yazeed ar-riyahi
• Repentance of two brothers at the last hours of ashura
• Repentance of Yousuf’s brothers
• Repentance of the island dweller
• Al-Asmaei and the repentant bedouin
• Truthfulness that causes repentance
• Wonderful repentance
• Repentance of Bishr al-Hafi
• The repentant will be in paradise
• Repentance of Abu Lubaba
• Repentance of the blacksmith
• Repentance of the people of Younus
• Repentance of the young prisoner
• Repentance of one of tyrant’s assistants
• Wonderful repentance
• Repentance due to a meaningful sentence
• Wakefulness of ar-Rasheed’s son
• Repentance of the magus
• Repentance and peace with the truth
• Notes
• The Abundant Profits of Piety and Godliness
• Man and his tendencies and desires
• The great jihad
• The way of reform
• The matters related to reforming oneself
• Ibn Sereen and interpreting dreams
• Divine wealth and abundant knowledge
• Waking of the young man
• The young worshipper
• Saint Pouria and his jihad against desires
• Seizing the opportunity
• The moral beauty and purifying the soul from vices
• People of guidance and success
• Believing in the unseen
• Allah the Almighty
• The Angels
• Barzakh
• The day of resurrection
• The accounting
• The scales
• Paradise and Hell
• Prayer
• Spending
• A wonderful story on charity and spending
• Being kind to father and mother
• Being charitable to the kin
• Being kind to the orphan
• Being kind to the needy
• Courteous saying
• Imam as-Sadiq (as) when talking about this verse
• Sincerity
• Patience
• Lawful wealth
• Piety
• Charity and benevolence
• Ghairat
• Taking lessons
• Goodness
• Learning
• Hope and expectation
• Justice
• Vices and bad deeds
• Lying
• Accusation
• Backbiting
• Scorning and mocking
• Oaths
• Impermissible lusts
• INJUSTICE AND OPPRESSION
• Anger and violence
• Spite and hatred
• Stinginess
• Monopoly
• Being fond of the worldly life
• Treason
• Drinking intoxicants
• Cursing and abusing
• Wasting and squandering
• Cheating
• Usury
• Causes of perishment
• Pride and haughtiness
• Notes
• Summary
• Notes