- BOOK ID
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- Publisher's Preface
- Introduction
- The Importance of Self-Knowledge
- The Benefits of Self-knowledge
- Fiqh, Islamic jurisprudence; Akhlaq, Ethics
- Free Will
- Our Future
- Heaven and hell
- Endless future
- Infinite rewards or punishments
- Good Attributes of Human Beings
- How to Reach Our Goal
- Complete dependence
- Mortality of this universe
- True nature of this life
- The Representative of Allah on Earth
- The Spirit
- The Status of Human Beings in the Glorious Qur'an
- Man is unjust and ignorant
- Man is ungrateful
- Man is an inordinate being
- Man is hasty and does not have sufficient patience
Self-knowledge
BOOK ID
Title: Self -Knowledge
Author(s): Mohammad Ali Shomali
Publisher(s): International Publishing Co.
Category: General Ethics General
Topic Tags: Knowledge Fiqh jurisprudence knowledge of the self Ethics Miscellaneous information:nbsp;Edited by Muhammad Legenhausen
ISBN 964-304-052-6
Appearance: 173 p
Congress Classification: BP250/ش8س8 1385
Dewey decimal classification: 297/63
National bibliography number: M75-7122
Featured Category: Introducing Islam Muslim Practices
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سرشناسه : شمالی، محمدعلی، 1346 -Shomali, Mohammad Ali
عنوان و نام پديدآور : Self -Knowledge/ Mohammad Ali Shomali
مشخصات نشر : Tehran: International Publishing Co, 1417 = 1996.
مشخصات ظاهری : xvi, 173 p
وضعیت فهرست نویسی : فهرست نویسی قبلی
يادداشت : معرفت نفس }Tilte in Persian:{.
یادداشت : Includes bibliographical footnotes
آوانویسی عنوان : سلف نالج
موضوع : Self - actualization (Islam)
موضوع : Knowledge, theory of (Islam)
موضوع : Spirit
رده بندی کنگره : BP250/ش8س8 1385
رده بندی دیویی : 297/63
شماره کتابشناسی ملی : M75-7122
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This book is an invitation to a journey, an interior journey of discovery in quest of a lost treasure containing the most precious jewels of the whole of creation. The map which shows the way is to be found in the final message of Allah for mankind, a way which is also indicated by the internal compass in every heart. We begin our journey with an inquiry into the nature of the spirit and its virtues and vices, and we are led to an understanding that man has the potential to be the representative of God on earth. If we pay heed to our origin and present conditions, and if we arrive at a sufficient understanding of our ultimate goal, the kinds of knowledge that are obtained on the journey will help us to make wise choices about the course our lives may take.
Publisher's Preface
We live in a time when people have come to feel an urgent need to examine the spiritual dimension of their lives. The materialistic tendencies which have dominated so much of the modern age are beginning to lose their attraction. People are beginning to realize that their deepest needs cannot be satisfied by consumer products.
The turn within, however, is not without dangers of its own; sometimes the
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