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The Ahlul-Bayt; Ethical Role-Models

Author: Sayyid Mahdi as-Sadr
Translator: Badr Shahin
Publisher: Ansariyan Publications – Qum
Category:

• Introduction
• Notes
• Section One: General Ethics
• Moral conduct
• Notes
• Ill-Temper
• Morals between Rectitude and Deviation
• Treatment of Ill-Temper
• Note
• Truth
• Achievements of Truth
• Parts of Truth
• Notes
• Untruth
• Disadvantages of Untruth
• Reasons of Untruth
• Sorts of Untruth
• Damages of false swearing and perjury
• Breach of Promise
• Mocking Untruth
• Treatment of Untruth
• Justifications of Untruth
• Notes
• Clemency and Suppression of Anger
• Notes
• Anger
• Incentives of Anger
• Damages of Anger
• Anger between Praise and Censure
• Treatment of Anger
• Notes
• Modesty
• Notes
• Arrogance
• Disadvantages of Arrogance
• Incentives of Arrogance
• Levels of Arrogance
• Sorts of Arrogance
• Treatment of Arrogance
• Notes
• Satisfaction
• Advantages of Satisfaction
• Notes
• Greed
• Disadvantages of Greed
• Treatment of Greed
• Notes
• Generosity
• Advantages of Generosity
• Fields of Generosity
• Incentives of Generosity
• Notes
• Altruism
• Notes
• Stinginess
• Disadvantages of Stinginess
• Forms of Stinginess
• Treatment of Stinginess
• Notes
• Chastity
• Reality of Chastity
• The Sought Moderation
• Advantages of Chastity
• Notes
• Gluttony
• Disadvantages of Gluttony
• Treatment of Gluttony
• Notes
• Faithfulness and Breach
• Advantages of Faithfulness and Disadvantages of Breach
• Forms of Breach
• Notes
• Fraternity
• Spiritual Fraternity
• Notes
• Sectarianism
• Reality of Sectarianism
• Calamities of Sectarianism
• Notes
• Justice
• Forms of Justice
• (1) Man’s justice towards God
• (2) Man’s justice towards the society
• (3) Justice towards the dead
• (4) Justice of the rulers
• Advantages of Justice
• Notes
• Injustice
• Forms of Injustice
• (1) Self-Wronging
• (2) Injustice towards the Family
• (3) Injustice towards the Relatives
• (4) Injustice towards the Society
• (5) Injustice of the Rulers
• Bad Consequences of Injustice
• Treatment of Injustice
• Notes
• Sincerity
• Virtue of Sincerity
• Obstacles of Sincerity
• How to Obtain Sincerity?
• Notes
• Showiness
• Categories of Showiness
• 1. Showiness of the Belief
• 2. Showiness of Acts of Worship
• 3. Practical Showiness
• 4. Verbal Showiness
• Incentives of Showiness
• Some Facts
• Disadvantages of Showiness
• Treatment of Showiness
• Notes
• Conceit
• Disadvantages of Conceit
• Treatment of Conceit
• Notes
• Conviction
• Qualities of People of Conviction
• Ranks of Faith
• Categories of Faith
• Natural Faith
• Transient Faith
• Acquisitive Faith
• Notes
• Patience
• Categories of Patience
• Steadfastness against Misfortunes and Calamities
• Standing the Obedience and Perseverance against the Disobedience to God
• Patience of the Graces
• Advantages of Patience
• How to Acquire Patience?
• Notes
• Gratitude
• Categories of Gratitude
• Virtue of Gratitude
• How to Acquire Thankfulness?
• Notes
• Trust In God
• Reality of Trust in God
• Ranks of Trust in God
• Advantages of Trust in God
• How to Acquire Trust in God?
• Notes
• Fear Of God
• Fear between Ebb and Flow
• Advantages of Fear
• Stories of the Fearful
• Notes
• Hope For God
• Warning against Despair
• Vastness of God’s Mercy and Pardon
• Favorable Judgment about God
• Intercession of the Prophet and the Imams for their Adherents
• Calamities and Diseases Cancel the Believers’ Sins
• Reality of Hope
• Purpose of Hope and Fear
• Notes
• Deception
• Forms of Deception
• Worldly Deception
• The Everlasting Law
• Disadvantages of the Worldly Deception
• Treatment of the Worldly Deception
• Deception of Knowledge
• Deception of Authority
• Authority between Praise and Censure
• Deception of Wealth
• Wealth between Praise and Censure
• Deception of Lineage
• Notes
• Envy
• Incentive of Envy
• (1) Malignity
• (2) Enmity
• (3) Competition
• (4) Selfishness
• (5) Contempt
• Disadvantages of Envy
• Treatment of Envy
• Notes
• Backbiting
• Disregard of Backbiting
• Incentives of Backbiting
• Disadvantages of Backbiting
• Reasonable Grounds of Backbiting
• Treatment of Backbiting
• Penance of Backbiting
• Notes
• Slander
• Note
• Talebearing
• Incentives of Talebearing
• Disadvantages of Talebearing
• How to Deal with the Talebearer?
• Notes
• Calumny
• Note
• Obscenity, Revilement and Defamation
• Disadvantages of Obscenity
• Notes
• Sarcasm
• Notes
• Good Wording
• Notes
• Inconveniences of Sins
• Notes
• Repentance
• Reality of Repentance
• Merits of Repentance
• Obligation and Immediateness of Repentance
• Repetition of Repentance
• Courses of Repentance
• Acceptance of Repentance
• Notes
• Self-Judgment and Self-Control
• Constitution of Self-Judgment
• Seizure of Life’s Opportunity
• Notes
• Righteous Deed
• Notes
• Obedience and God- Fearing
• Reality of Obedience and God-Fearing
• Notes
• Perseverance on Principles
• Notes
• Section Two: Rights and Obligations
• Preface
• The Divine Rights
• 1. Worship
• 2. Obedience
• 3. Thankfulness
• 4. Trust in God
• Notes
• Rights of the Prophet
• 1. Obedience to the Prophet
• 2. Love for the Prophet
• 3. Blessing the Prophet
• 4. The Love for the Ahlul-Bayt
• Notes
• Rights of the Imams
• 1. Recognition of the Imams
• 2. Loyalty to the Imams
• 3. Obedience to the Imams
• 4. Fulfillment of the Khums
• 5. Kind Treatment to the Prophet’s Descendants
• 6. Praising and Publicizing the Imams’ Merits
• 7. Pilgrimage to the Imams’ Shrine
• Notes
• Rights of Scholars
• Merits of Knowledge and Scholars
• Regard of Scholars
• Charity to Scholars
• Compliance with Scholars
• Notes
• Rights of Teachers and Students
• Rights of teacher
• Rights of Students
• Notes
• Rights of Parents and Sons
• Rights of Parents
• Filial Piety
• Filial Impiety
• Disadvantages of Filial Impiety
• Rights of Sons
• Wisdom of Discipline
• The Child’s First School
• Course of Education
• Notes
• Matrimonial Rights
• Merits of Marriage
• 1. Advantages of Marriage
• 2. Benefits of Marriage
• 3. Results of Marriage
• Marital Happiness
• The Ideal Husband
• The Ideal Wife
• Observance of Rights
• Rights of Husbands
• 1. Obedience to Husbands
• 2. Compliance with Husbands
• 3. Observance of Husbands’ honor
• Rights of Wives
• 1. Disbursement
• 2. Good Companionship
• 3. Protection
• False Rights
• Removal of the Veil
• Moral Defects
• Physical Defects
• Social Defects
• Woman in Islam
• Woman in the Ancient Ages
• Woman in the Pre-Islamic Arab Society
• Woman in the Modern Western Civilization
• Woman’s Liberation in Islam
• Equality of the sexes
• Distinction between the Sexes
• 1. Maintenance
• 2. Man’s Preference to Woman in Inheritance
• 3. Testimony
• 4. Polygamy
• Justifications of Polygamy
• Divorce in Islam
• Notes
• Rights of the Relatives
• Merits of the Relatives
• Regard of Relatives
• Disregard of the Relatives
• Notes
• Rights of Friends
• Merits of Friends
• Reality of Friendship
• Friends’ Selection
• The Ideal Friend
• Standards of Love
• Friendship between Ebb and Flow
• Rights of Friends
• 1. Material Care
• 2. Moral Care
• 3. Excusation
• Moderation with Friends
• Notes
• Rights of Neighborhood
• Cooperation and Mutual sympathy
• Rights of Neighbors
• Notes
• Rights of the Islamic Society
• Merits of the Islamic Society
• Rights of the Islamic Society
• 1. Right of Life
• 2. Right of Dignity
• 3. Right of Freedom
• A. Freedom of Religion
• B. Civil Freedom
• C. Freedom of Propagation of Islam
• 4. Right of Equality
• Equality in Islam
• 5. Right of Knowledge
• 6. Right of Ownership
• 7. Right of Islamic Interests
• A. Feeding and Watering the Believer
• B. Clothing the Believer
• C. Settling the Believers Need
• D. Gladdening the Believer
• E. Visiting the Believer
• Notes
• Obligations of the Rulers
• Rights of Subjects against Rulers
• (A) Justice
• (B) Righteousness
• (C) Lenience
• Aspects of Lenience
• Results of Lenience
• (D) Selection of the Retinue
• (E) Settlement with the Officials
• (F) Achievement of Social Happiness
• Rulers’ Rights against Subjects
• (1) Obedience
• (2) Support
• (3) Advice
• Notes
• Physical and Mental Necessities
• Physical Rights
• Mental Rights
• (1) Self-education
• (2) Well Intention
• (3) Self-control
• 4. Self-Judgment
• Notes