Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

Jami' al-Sa'adat (The Collector of Felicities)

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

• Presentation
• Introduction
• The Meaning and Origin of Akhlaq
• Souls Purification and Adornment
• Faculties of the Soul: Their Effects and Characteristics
• The Soul and Its Powers
• Pleasures and Pains
• Goodness and Happiness
• Moral Virtues and Vices
• Moderation and Deviation
• The Various Types of Vice
• Deficiency
• Moderation
• Excess
• The Importance of Justice
• Various Kinds of Justice
• Self-development
• Notes
• Diseases of the Soul and their Treatment
• Diseases of the Power of Intellect and Their Treatment
• A. The Condition of Excess
• B. The Condition of Deficiency
• C. The State of Moderation
• Other Vices Related to the Power of Intellect
• 1. Compound Ignorance
• 2. Perplexity and Doubt
• Signs of Men of Conviction
• Stages of Certainty
• 3. Shirk (Polytheism)
• 4. Satanic Temptations and Consciousness
• 5. Trickery and Slyness
• Diseases of the Power of Anger and Their Treatment
• a. The Condition of Excess
• b. The Condition of Deficiency
• c. The Condition of Moderation
• Other Vices of the Power of Anger
• 1. Fear (khawf)
• 2. Self Depreciation or Inferiority Complex
• 3. Diffidence
• 4. Lack of the Sense of Dignity
• 5. Hastiness
• 6. Ill-feeling Towards the Creator and His Creation
• 7. Anger
• 8. Violence
• 9. Ill-temper
• 10. Rancour
• 11. Self-conceit and Vanity
• 12. Arrogance
• 13. Rebelliousness
• 14. Blindness to One's Faults
• 15. Fanaticism
• 16. Concealing Truth
• 17. Callousness and Cruelty
• Vices of the Power of Passion
• 1. Love of the World
• 2. Love of Wealth and Richness
• 3. Affluence and Opulence
• 4. Greed (Hirs)
• 5. Avarice (tama`)
• 6. Miserliness (Bukhl)
• 7. Illegitimate earning
• 8. Treachery (Khiyaniah)
• 9. Licentiousness and Profligacy
• 10. Delving in Obscene and Haram Matters
• Joint Diseases of the Powers of Intellect, Anger, and Passion
• 1. Jealousy (Hasad)
• 2. Harassing and Insulting Others
• 3. Frightening and Bothering Muslims
• 4. Indifference to the Affairs of Muslims
• 5. Negligence in Carrying Out the Duty of "Al-amr bil ma'ruf wal nahy 'an al-munhar"
• 6. Unsociableness
• 7. Breaking Ties with One's Family and Kin
• 8. Being undutiful to Parents
• 9. Finding Faults with Others and Exposing Their Shortcomings or Sins
• 10. Revealing Other People's Secrets
• 11. Shamatah
• 12. Taunting and Dispute (Ta'n wa Mujadalah)
• 13. Making Fun of Other People and Ridiculing Them
• 14. Joking
• 15. Backbiting (Ghibah)
• 16. Lying
• 17. Simulation (riya')
• 18. Hypocrisy (Nifaq)
• 19. Pride (Ghurur)
• 20. Having Elaborate and Far-Flung Hopes and Desires
• 21. Rebelliousness (`Isyan)
• 22. Shamelessness
• 23. Persistence in Sin (al-'israr `ala al-ma'siyah)
• 24. Neglect (Ghaflah)
• 25. Aversion (Karahah)
• 26. Sakhat
• 27. Huzn
• 28. Absence of Trust in God
• 29. Ingratitude (Kufran)
• 30. Jaza ` (Restlessness)
• 31. Fisq
• Notes