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- The Book and the Author
- Book’s Adherence to the Way of Ahl al-Bayt (‘a):
- Authors Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Need to Cultivate Ethics, Benefits and the Necessity to Pay Attention to It
- Chapter 2: Preference of Delving into the Science of Ethics and Spending Some Time of Ones Life Therein
- Chapter 3: Allah Created Us to Live Happily Forever; He prepared Us for Such Happiness
- Chapter 4: Some Venues Leading to Allah Almighty
- Chapter 5: Man is Weak
- Chapter 6: What Path Should God’s Servants Take to Reach Their Lord
- Chapter 7: How do we Tread the Path to Allah?
- Chapter 8: A Believer’s Conviction is Incomplete Without Certain Merits
- Chapter 9: Resigning to Destiny
- Chapter 10: Beyond Resignation to Destiny. Reliance on Allah, Submission to Him, Total Surrender to His Will
- Chapter 11: Degrees of Believers. Believers are of Various Degrees Distinguishing One from the Other With Regard to Their Limits
recitation time and over again, commemorating one Arba`in (1) after another...
It is as though the worshipper tries to ascend to the angelic world in one night and through one ritual, forgetting that the path is what is advocated by the Qur’an: through one’s straightforwardness, struggle and serious effort to implement the Shari`ah to the letter, starting from individual matters, that is, acting upon what is obligatory and abandoning what is prohibitive, passing by what is highly commendable and what is held as contemptible, ending with the social issues, even if the latter means fighting the enemies of Allah Almighty on the field. We have pointed out in this book to portraits of such inclusion, something which has set this work apart from others.
Its realism: We see how the author inclines to display ethics as applied portraits to which one has to adhere while practicing them, rather than a collection of complicated ideas very close to being runes and riddles, as if their owner wants to prove through them his scholarly distinction and superiority over his peers. You may read the book once or twice without finding in it any one practical point applied on life’s field, one whereby a human alters his conduct, instead of being a purely scholarly luxury.
Book’s Adherence to the Way of Ahl al-Bayt (‘a):
The author hardly leaves one field without documenting it with a terse tradition transmitted from the guides of mankind, thus reflecting the depth of the author’s adherence to the necessity of comparing any major or minor movement seeking
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