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Selection from Glimpses of the Nahj al-Balaghah
This book is corrected and edited by Al-Hassanain (p) Institue for Islamic Heritage and Thought
Author:
Ayatullah Murtadha Mutahhari
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Preface
Introduction
Nahj al-balaghah and the Present-Day Islamic Society
A Literary Marvel
Al-Sayyid al-Radi and the Nahj al-balaghah
Two Distinctive Characteristics
Literary Beauty and Elegance
Influence of 'Ali's Oratory
The Opinions of Ancient and Modern Scholars
Modern Perspectives
The Nahj al-balaghah Among Literary Classics
Imam 'Ali's Versatility
The themes of the Nahj al-balaghah
A Glance at the Varied Problems Covered by the Nahj al-balaghah
Notes
Theology and Metaphysics
A Bitter Fact
Shi'i Rationalism
Philosophical Notions Concerning Metaphysics
The Value of Study of the Natural Phenomena
Purely Rationalistic Problems
The Divine Essence and Attributes
The Divine Essence
Divine Unity an Ontological, not a Numerical Concept
God, The First and the Last; the Manifest and the Hidden
An Appraisal
The Nahj al-balaghah and the Notions of Kalam
The Nahj al-balaghah and Philosophical Concepts
The Nahj al-balaghah and Western Philosophic Thought
Notes
Suluk and 'Ibadah
Levels of Worship
The Approach of the Nahj al-balaghah
The Worship of Freemen
God's Remembrance
Levels of Devotion
Nights of the Devout
The Profile of the Pious
Night Vigils
The Spiritual Experience
Purging of Sins
Moral Remedy
Intimacy and Ecstasy
Notes
Government and Justice
The Nahj al-balaghah on State
The Importance of Politics
Justice, a Supreme Value
Indifference to Injustice
Justice Should not be Compromised
The Rights of the People
The Church and the Right of Sovereignty
The approach of the Nahj al-balaghah
The Rulers are the People's Trustees Not Their Lords
Notes
Moral Lectures and Aphorisms
Inimitable Moral Teaching
A Comparison
Spiritual Counsel and Wisdom
Maw'izah and Khitabah (Exhortation and Oratory)
The Nahj al-balaghah's Recurring Themes
The Themes in Spiritual Advices
Imam Ali's Logic
Taqwa
Taqwa is Immunity not Restraint
Taqwa as Immunity
A Reciprocal Commitment
Zuhd and Piety
Islamic Zuhd and Christian Asceticism
Two Questions
The Three Essential Principles
The Zahid and the Monk
Zuhd and Altruism
Sympathy and Kindness
Zuhd and Freedom
Zuhd And Spirituality
Zuhd, Love, and Worship
Zuhd: Minimum of Intake for Maximum Output
Notes
The World and Worldliness
Renunciation in the Nahj al-balaghah
The Danger Created by War Booty
The Intoxication of Affluence
The General Aspect of 'Ali's Warnings
The Terminology of Every School
The 'World ' that is Condemned
The Relation Between Man and the World
The Logic of Islam
'The World' in the Qur’an and the Nahj al-balaghah
Freedom and Bondage
The Existentialist Viewpoint
Does Evolution Involve Self-Alienation?
Forgetting and Losing the Self
The Discovery of the Self and of God
Worship and the Rediscovery of the Self
Some Relevant Issues
The World Versus the Hereafter
The Primary and the Secondary
A Tradition
Concluded; wal-hamdu lilla-h
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Selection from Glimpses of the Nahj al-Balaghah
Author:
Ayatullah Murtadha Mutahhari
Publisher:
www.alhassanain.org/english
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