Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

Self-Recognition for Self-Improvement

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

• Presentation
• Preface
• The Necessity of Self - Recognition
• Necessary Explanations
• Note
• Perfection
• The Chain of Perfections
• Perfectibility Movement and Its Causes and Conditions
• Scientific and Non - Scientific Movement
• Instinctive and Non - Instinctive Perception
• Voluntary and Involuntary Movement
• Recognition of Perfection before Attaining it
• Views of Philosophers on Man's Perfection
• Giving Direction to Innate Desires
• Perception and Its Degrees
• Power and Its Manifestations
• Love and Worship
• Pleasure and Perfection
• The Peak of Desires and Extreme Limit of Aspirations
• The Simplest Way
• Proof from the Verses and the Narrations
• Conclusion Derived From Previous Discussions
• Notes
• Reply to Several Questions
• First Question
• Second Question
• Third Question
• Note
• Qurb (Proximity) with Allah
• The Means of Achieving Qurb with Allah
• Note
• The Truth of Worship
• The Role of knowledge in Development
• The Relationship of Science, Belief and Action
• Management of Will-Power
• The System of Perception
• The System of Will - Power
• The Connection between the System of Perception and the System of Will-Power
• The Role Played by Desire and Inclination in Perception
• Will and Choice
• Conclusion
• Note
• Glossary