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Qalbe-Saleem; [Immaculate Conscience]

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

• Mission of the Prophets
• Training and self-purification means knowledge and action
• Knowledge sans actions or a fruitless Branch
• Body and Soul
• Sins related to the body and soul
• Duty of the religious Scholars
• Compilation of Greater Sins, an Important Step
• Qalbe Saleem (Immaculate Conscience) and Gunahane Kabira (Greater Sins)
• Responsibility of the Respected Readers
• Introduction
• Sin of the Heart
• Quran and the sins of the heart
• Sin of the Heart or inner disease
• Paradise is the abode of only those who possess a perfect heart
• Harmful effects of the diseases of the Heart
• Physical sins are caused by diseases of the Heart
• Depravity of the Society
• Jealousy, an Example
• A Healthy soul and a Healthy Body
• Cleanliness of the Body from the food consumed
• Spiritual Hygiene is also Important
• Prescription
• Materialist man has no spiritual cure
• Quran, The Message that Bestows life
• Refutation of a wrong notion
• A Wrong Notion
• To be cautious of Satanic whisperings is a sign of belief
• There is no other way
• An Astounding Fact
• Prescription is not a cure
• Disbelief is not the only Spiritual Disease
• Lack of belief is real ignorance
• A disbeliever is worse than animals
• The Dead
• Death of the Soul
• Peaceful life and a comfortable Hereafter
• Hope in Allah, the strongest support for a believer
• The disbeliever’s heart is a Horrible Ruin
• The Unbeliever’s dread will never end
• Joy and Sorrow
• Acquire as much belief as possible
• Belief means Certainty
• Conclusion of this Introduction
• Notes
• First Disease-Disbelief
• Consequence of Disbelief
• Two Types of Disbeliefs
• Disbelief Despite Knowledge
• Irreligious People
• Infidels of Mecca and Jews of Medina
• Worldly Punishment
• Two Inner Eyes
• An Objection and its Reply
• Blindness and Deafness
• Cure for the Denial of the Origin and Hereafter
• Lack of knowledge is different from lack of realization that one lacks knowledge
• In Doubt
• If you cannot find proof you cannot say that there is no proof
• Ray of Hope
• Difference in the Understanding capacity of Human beings and Animals
• Disbelievers are like Beasts
• Quranic Cure of Disbelief
• Precaution makes Sense
• The style of Imam Ja’far as-Sadiq (a.s.)
• A Good Tree
• Leaves, Branches and Fruits of the Tree of Belief
• Consequence of Disbelief
• Belief and Disbelief
• The Believer does no evil, the Infidel does no good
• Denial of Prophethood
• Benefit of a Guide
• Intellect in isolation is subdued by desires
• Denial of the Messengership of the Last Prophet
• Denial of Wilayat and Imamat
• Notes
• Second Disease: Hypocrisy
• Types of Hypocrisy
• First Type: Hypocrisy against Allah regarding actual faith
• Dissimulation and its Types
• Difference between Dissimulation and Hypocrisy
• Second Type: Hypocrisy with Allah Regarding the Necessities of faith
• A Believer is not a Habitual sinner
• Spending in Allah’s way is a sign of Hope in Allah
• False claim of Piety and Religiousness
• Hypocrisy with Allah regarding the worship acts
• Sins that cause Hypocrisy
• Third Type: Hypocrisy with people
• The worst folks on Judgment Day
• Difference between Dissimulation and False Praise
• Double-Facedness
• Punishment in proportion to Hypocrisy
• Justice of Allah, Intercession and Repentance
• Verbal Repentance
• Heartfelt Regret
• Divine Mercy
• Cure of Hypocrisy with Allah
• Deceiving Oneself
• Respite
• Loss in the world and the Hereafter
• Deceit to Counter Deceit
• Repentance from Hypocrisy
• Conditions for leaving hypocrisy
• First ConditionFirst Condition
• Second ConditionSecond Condition
• Third ConditionThird Condition
• Fourth ConditionFourth Condition
• Cure of Sins related to the Soul
• Sincerity is the only way
• Performing good deeds secretly
• Cure for Hypocrisy with people
• Hypocrisy of States
• Hypocrisy is widespread
• Worldly Harm of Hypocrisy
• Result of Jealousy
• Spiritual harm of Hypocrisy
• All those you see are not humans
• Animal Qualities
• Men who are Satans
• Humans have a higher status than Angels
• Truth and Reality
• Giving up Hypocrisy
• Some customs that are against Reality
• Notes
• Third Disease: Polytheism
• From the height of Monotheism to the depravity of Polytheism
• The Demand of Humanity : Monotheism
• Cannot ever create a Mosquito
• Types of False Deities
• Worship of the most lowly things
• Excuses for Idol Worship
• Worship of the Four Elements
• Sun, Moon and the Stars
• From the aspect of creation, Earth is like the Moon and Stars
• False beliefs
• Worship of Trees and Division of Good and Evil
• The Nature of Man says that God is One
• Polytheism in Actions
• Idol-worship is open Polytheism
• The Polytheism of Ahlul Kitab is Hidden Polytheism
• Extremists and believers in ‘delegation’ (Tafweez) are also Polytheists
• Obedience of the Lord
• People who make legal things illegal and illegal things legal
• Following the scholars of false religions is also Polytheism
• Quality of the Shia Jurisprudents
• Polytheism along with worship
• Obedience in every moment of life
• He should not serve anyone else
• Worshipping the Desires
• Slave of many masters and Slave of One Master
• Steadfastness in Monotheism
• An Example
• Polytheism in seeking the help of causes
• We should repose hope in the final cause
• Obeying someone in sin is also Polytheism
• Swearing by anyone else is not Prohibited
• Practice for Monotheism
• Do not Hide faith by oppression
• Believers in Difficulties and Polytheists in Comfort
• Forgetting the Favors
• A Wrong Notion
• All blessings are from Allah
• When the fact will be known
• They have come alone and would return alone
• Imploring the Causes is Deviation
• One who forgets Allah, gets himself forgotten
• Monotheism of Actions
• Strengthen your Faith
• Verbal confession is not enough
• Worship of carnal desires is contrary to the belief in Monotheism
• Attention on belief in monotheism through words and deeds
• Hope from Allah and fear of Sins
• More subtle than the footfall of an Ant
• Making someone a medium (Wasilah) for God is not polytheism
• To augur evil is a kind of polytheism
• Sneeze is a blessing
• ‘Inauspicious moment’ is also nonsense
• Amirul Momineen (a.s.) marches to Naharwan
• Marched at the same time and returned victorious
• Crowing of the crow
• To consider someone as auspicious or inauspicious is also nonsense
• Misunderstanding
• Inauspiciousness lies in wrong beliefs and disapproved qualities
• Do not care for Bad Omen
• Travel on Wednesday and its Supplication
• We must always augur good
• Auguring evil is related to polytheism
• Conclusion
• Making Imams as intermediaries is not polytheism
• Visitation (Ziyarat) is not deification
• Respecting the kings and rulers
• Taking someone as intermediary is different from considering him a deity
• After the demise of the Holy Prophet (S)
• Prophet Yaqub (a.s.) interceded for his sons
• Hidden Wisdoms of Intercession
• Cure of the disease of polytheism
• Cause and Effect
• Effect of the causes
• Man is helpless in creation
• Will of Allah
• One should say ‘If Allah wills’ (Insha Allah)
• With the expectations being broken
• Dua Faraj and release of Hasan Muthanna
• Beyond the Will of Allah
• Necessary to understand
• He may forgive us
• Dua Jaushan Kabir and Dua Arafah
• Notes
• Fourth Disease: Doubt
• Doubt is a sign of the disease of heart
• Doubt is a serious disease
• Nothing but Allah
• Loss in both the worlds
• Do not doubt! You may become an infidel
• One who doubts in Allah is an infidel
• Good deeds in the state of doubt are useless
• Destruction forever
• This is not reasonable
• Way to Paradise
• Punishment of the Hereafter is not revenge
• Another Misunderstanding
• Allah is not hidden from any sensible being
• The blind cannot see the sun
• They do not want to recognize the truth
• The book of nature should be read with attention
• Knowledge of the Universe
• Advancement of science
• Courage is low and limited to material pleasures
• An historic example of an elevated spirit
• Wealth, Position and Lust
• Spiritual Pleasures are many times tastier
• Continued praying though hit with arrows
• The brave ones of Karbala
• Science supports belief of Monotheism
• The Purpose of all creation is recognition of God
• Worship and Knowledge of Allah
• The Remedy of doubt and the position of certainty
• Power of electricity
• Purification of filth
• Belief is a natural thing
• One kind of Creation cannot be changed into another kind
• Firmness on Monotheism is an excellence
• If man seriously tries he can definitely gain Allah’s recognition
• Awakening of conscience
• 1. Darwin
• 2. Raeng
• 3. Rumien
• 4. Faraday
• Islam is a natural religion
• When there is none to hear the plea
• Divine help to seek knowledge
• Do not deliberate on Allah’s Being
• The Flight of thought is limited
• Eyes only see material things
• Three questions-a single reply
• Some scientists
• A Drop of Sea
• The Ant and The Telephone Pole
• Recognition of God and Science are related to each other
• An Eternal and Everlasting power
• The Universe and its Creator
• Brief statements of other thinkers
• Removal of Dirt
• Cure of Self-worship
• Self Recognition
• Don’t consider yourself free
• Beastly pleasures and desires
• The Most dangerous pain of the heart
• Allah is Manifest, but veils of desires intervene
• Preoccupation makes one forget Allah
• We have lost the way
• A Miserable time
• Social life must also not be forsaken
• The Self of man, and Satan
• Congregational prayer and Hajj
• Islamic laws and acting on them
• Five times purification every twenty-four hours
• Every act has a particular effect
• Remembering death purifies the heart
• Everything should be within limits
• Pleasure of Supplication
• Worship slashes the veil
• It is a difficult but important task
• Assimilation
• Contemplation
• Material Progress
• Another World
• This world is for divine recognition (Ma’arifat)
• Contemplation is the best worship act
• Contemplation results in good deeds
• Contemplation is the way of recognition
• Hands of the clock
• The Human Body
• Habit or Warning
• Study the Quran
• The Infidel king and the Pious vizier
• Discussion of Ali Bin Mitham
• White and Yolk of an egg
• Words of Allah
• A Great Power
• Shaddad could not see his self-made Paradise
• Pharaoh was disappointed
• Nimrod, Abraha and Prophet Sulaiman (a.s.)
• Remembrance of Allah
• Pride on ancestry
• Remembrance and thanks all the time
• One Breath
• Man forgets himself
• Man is not only a physical body
• Concern for Obligatory and Unlawful Acts
• The Best and the most Difficult work
• Importance of Remembering Allah
• This is watchfulness
• Prophet Yusuf (a.s.) and Zulaikha
• Allah is watching
• What the shepherd said
• A slave of Allah
• Verbal remembrance
• The Four Praises
• The More the Better
• Excellence of the Midnight Prayer
• Emphasis on the Midnight Prayer
• Those who wake up at dawn
• Twenty-six Qualities of the Midnight Prayer
• The Messenger of Allah (S) has said that the Midnight Prayer
• Method of the Midnight Prayer
• Stages of Faith
• Three stages of Infidelity
• A Condition of a True Believer
• Obligatory and Recommended Deeds
• Deviation of the Sufis
• People of Perception
• Fondness of Allah’s proximity
• The Great Signs of Certainty
• Certainty is Peace and Doubt is Perplexity
• Everything belongs to Allah
• People of certainty are satisfied in all conditions
• Fear and Hope only from Allah
• Importance of a Deed is based on certainty
• It is Better to Sleep with certainty of Faith
• Love of the world
• Only Deeds Remain
• Worship is an action devoid of the love of the world
• For the eternal world
• Love the Hereafter
• Love the world for the Hereafter
• Worldly bounties for the pleasure of Allah
• It is better if it is for the Hereafter
• Temporary love of the world is not Blameworthy
• Signs of the love of the world for the sake of the Hereafter
• Permanent Love of the world
• Ranks of Worldly love
• First LevelFirst Level
• Loving the world too much
• Second levelSecond level
• A heart imbued with the love of Allah becomes empty of the love of the world
• The Heart–moving words of Amirul Momineen(a.s.)
• Removing the Love of the world from the Heart
• Since the love of the world begets poverty and destitution it is not obligatory to forgo it
• It is a Voluntary act to have more and more love for the Hereafter
• The Universe would disintegrate if there is no love for the world
• Love of the world is not absolutely unlawful
• Piety means that the heart becomes devoid of the love of the world
• Deeds Performed for Allah are more Beneficial
• Love of the world is the source of all Evil
• Love of the world be gets Evil
• Conclusion of the above Discussion
• Promise of Chastisement for the world-worshippers
• Four Noteworthy points in this verse
• Satisfied with the life of this world
• Nostalgia of a traveler
• Peace for the world-worshippers
• Ignoring the Signs of Allah
• Place of comfort for the world-worshippers
• Ignoring the Remembrance of God
• The Love of the world has sealed the Hearts
• The Utmost limit of Deviation
• They left behind the Difficult Day
• On the crossroads of the world and the Hereafter
• Three Groups
• Love of the world is the source of all evil
• Trouble from the moment of death
• Prophet Isa (a.s.) and his companions
• Love of the world disables reason
• The world and the Hereafter are deadly foes of each other
• The Second Level – Where the love of the world is preferable
• Exposition of the Verse
• Love for Allah necessitates love for His friends
• Love for the faith is love for Allah
• Take your Account
• Ahlul Bayt consider him an Enemy
• Love of Ahlul Bayt is obedience of Allah
• All good deeds result from love of God
• Twenty characteristics of the love for Ahlul Bayt
• Intellect of man informs about his mistake
• The criterion of the love of the Creator is divine recognition, not seeing Him with our physical eyes
• Divine Recognition and love for the Hereafter
• What Amirul Momineen (a.s.) says regarding Paradise and the Chosen People
• Additional verse on the unlawfulness of the love of the world
• Those who preferred the comforts of the world
• Some notable verses
• Allah does not like those who are proud and vain
• Further Explanation
• Signs of the Thankful and the Denier
• Thankfulness for a Bounty is more valuable than the Bounty itself
• Self-pride distances one from Allah
• Unlawful despair in the world
• Do not eye others’ property
• Explanation of Muhaqqiq Ardebeli
• Conclusion derived from the above verses
• Desiring the world brings trouble
• Love of the world causes fearlessness of and despair from Allah
• Sorrows of the world and the Hereafter
• Good Deeds, but Aimless
• Those who sacrifice the Hereafter on the world
• Good deeds without sincerity
• One who loves the world is not eligible for salvation
• That which Allah hates
• Enmity of the world is the best deed
• Sayings of the elders about the different kinds of deeds
• More harmful than hungry wolves
• World-worshipping scholars are robbers on the path of Allah
• Followers of the world-worshipping scholar also become like him
• Status-seekers are accursed
• Musa advises his scholar friend
• Beasts in Human Forms
• Ali (a.s.) introduces the Animals
• The Third Rank is Detestable
• That which stalls perfection of faith and human upliftment
• Love for anyone or anything other than God takes one away from God
• Divine injunction about such degree of attachment
• Let not the wealth and children make you negligent of remembering God
• Those who cannot be stopped from remembering God
• Worldly Beauties are Merely a Test
• The Primary and Secondary Aims of Creation
• How people are Tested through worldly Adornments
• Paradise is a better place for the pious
• A Wonderful narration regarding worldly love
• Love for the world is universal
• Three Groups of Theists
• Unmindful Worshippers
• All are equal in this matter
• Self-Glorification of Jews and Christians
• Evil of running away from Religious Scholars
• When intelligence will become perfect
• Our Responsibility in the present age
• Crooked thinking of the unwise and its answer
• An advice for the Faithful
• Divine Messengers are more worthy of emulation
• An example worth pondering over
• The world tries to entice Ali (a.s.)
• Love for the Hereafter and Negligence do not go together
• Lessening the love of the world
• Worldly love comes in the way of Gathering provision for the Hereafter
• This Illness must be remedied
• Danger upto the brink of grave
• Excessiveness of lust and intensity of anxiety
• Increase in Greed
• Growing Anxieties
• Envy, anger and Fearlessness
• Annoyance
• Fearlessness
• The Difficulty of Death
• Last moments of Abu Zakaria
• Gold coins and a creditor
• Flight from good advice
• Ponder over the Holy Quran
• (1) La’b (play)
• (2) Lahv (vain pastimes)
• (3) Beautification
• (4)Self Glorification
• (5) Abundance of wealth and children
• Do not pass on cursorily, but ponder
• Youth also was a spring season, which passed away
• This world is a place of warning
• Wise words of Amirul Momineen (a.s.) about instability of the world
• Those who are blind in seeing the Hereafter and run after the world
• Amirul Momineen (a.s.) forbids excess
• Success in this world is failure in Hereafter
• Light of wisdom, the result of worldly piety
• Examples of worldly life
• A beautiful but dreadful snake
• A strange story about a snake
• Luqman’s Admonition to his son
• Notes
• Intention
• Intention for sinning and remaining pleased with it
• Instances of sinful advances
• Verses and Narrations
• Deeds will be questioned about, be they open or hidden
• Good intention too will be rewarded
• Punishment for spreading scandals
• Allah will hold you responsible on the basis of your intention
• The killer and the killed, both in Hell
• Those who have been cursed
• Whoever threatens a believer will go to Hell
• One who is pleased with an act is a partner in that act
• Imam az-Zaman (a.s.) will take revenge
• Reason supports such narrations
• Statements of Shaykh Bahai
• Intention of sin has been pardoned
• Addition of a Good deed
• A sin not actually done will not be recorded
• Canceling of intention is the expiation for a sinful wish
• Intention of sinning without preliminaries of the act
• One should at least be cautious
• Intention to obey God
• For a poor person, intention to donate is charity
• Reward of Night Prayer Recorded
• A Believer and the Good Deeds He could not do
• With the martyrs of Karbala
• The wound of the battle of Siffin lasted for several years
• Notes