- Preface
- Preface
- What is Ethics?
- The need for ethics in life
- The Advantages and Favors of Ethics
- The Role of Education
- Education is the Bringing up of Capabilities
- Animals Have limited Potentials for Education
- Education Versus Training
- Ethics Versus Education
- The Wrong-Doer Needs an Innocent Instructor
- Education, or Training Which one should precede?
- The Four Quaranic Verses
- The Bases and philosophy of Ethics
- The Bases and philosophy of Ethics
- 1-The school of personal sensuality
- 2- The Epicurism or Personal Expedience
- 3- The Power – Monger School of Nitche
- 4- Affection Towards Others
- 5- The provision of prosperity from the view-point of wisdom
- 6- Ethical Conscience
- 7- Keeping One's interests with regards to keeping others' interests
- 8-The philosophy of Ethics from the viewpoint of Freud
- 9- The communist View on the Philosophy of Ethics
- A Summary of the 10 views: A conclusion
- The bases and principles of ethics and education in islam
- A historic and life-giving letter…
- Translations and Descriptions Used in this Book
- How the Present Book Got Published
- A Description of Imam Ali's will to his son Imam Hassan (s)
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- 1- From a Mortal Father( من الوالد الفان )
- 2- Admitting the tricks of the world ( المقر للزمان)
- 3- Passing away المدبر العمر) )
- 4- A Surrenderer to the World Eventsالمستسلم للدهر) )
- 5- The Reproacher of the Life( الذام للدنيا )
- 6. A Dweller of the Homes (graves) of the Dead الساكن مساكن) الموتى)
- 7. Who will leave it tomorrow( والظاعن عنها غداً)
- The Fourteen Attributes of Imam Ali's Son [AS]
- 1- Towards a wishful son who may not fulfill his wishes
- 2- The Follower of Those Who Have Gone Astray (السالك سبيل من قد هلك)
- 3- The Target For The Diseases( (غرض الاسقام
- 4. Captive of the Worldly Life (ورهينة الايام )
- 5. The Target for Disasters and Hardships ( ورمية المصائب )
- 6. A Slave to the worldly life
- 7. The Buyer of a Provision of Vanity وتاجر الغرور) )
- 8. Indebted to Death (وغريم المنايا )
- 9. A captive in the Hands of Death (واسير الموت)
- 10. Related to Griefs( (وحليف الهموم
- 11. Coupled With Sorrows وقرين الاحزان) )
- 12. A Target of Disasters( ونصب الآفات)
- 13. Defeated By One's Lusts وصريع الشهوات))
- 14. Successor of the Dead (وخليفة الاموات)
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- 1- O My Son, I recommend you to piety ( فإني اوصيك بتقوى الله)
- 2- Obeying God's Commands
- 3- Build up your Heart with God's Remembrance
- 4- Hold Fast to the Covenant of Allah together
- 5- Enlighten Your Heart with Exhortation (احيي قلبك بالموعظة)
- 6- Restrain Your Lusts with asceticism ( ( و أمته بالزهادة
- explainment
- The Essence Of Asceticism in Islam
- Some Samples of Traditions
- Two Interesting Historic Events
- The Philosophy of The Islmaic Piety
- Imam Ali (s) , Broadmindedness, And Struggle Against Luxuries
- The Degrees Of Piety
- Piety From the Viewpoint of Khajeh Nasr Tusi
- Piety in The Viewpoint Of Sheikh Al-Ra’ees
- The Last and Final noticeable Point
- 7. Empower Your Heart With Assurance
- 8. Enlighten it with Wisdom ( ونوره بالحكمة )
- 9. Tame it with the Remembrance of Death( وذبله بذكر الموت )
- 10. Be Convinced That the World is Mortal( وقرّره بالفناء )
- 11. Mention the World's Calamities to Your Heartوبَصّره فجايع الدني)ا)
- 12. Let Your Heart be aware of the world's Attack(وحذّره صولة الدهر وفحش تقلب الليالي والايام)
- 13. Present to it the history of the past…
- 14. Improve your future Residence…
- 16. Do not follow a path which you fear that …
- 17. Enjoin the good so that you will be among well-doers …
- 18. Learn the Religion ( ( وتفقه في الدين
- 19. Get used to perseverance in the face of hardships …
- 20. Trust in God in all your Affairs -God is a Reliable Protection
- 21. When asking God for anything, be sincere…
- 22. Try to comprehend my will thoroughly…
- 23. Be aware!
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- The Role of supplication and the conditions for its Fulfillment
- Persuasion Towards Supplication and Worship
- God will not need anything, Nor does he need any recommender
- The conditions for the Acceptance of supplication and prayers
- The Hindrances on the way of accepting supplication
- The reasons of Delaying responding to supplication
- The Access to Repentance and its role in correcting the sinner
- The Conditions For the perfect Repentance
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- 1. Man is a traveler riding on the palfrey of time
- 2. Since not all wishes are obtainable…
- 3. Keep up your generosity under any conditions
- 4. Man is created free and should remain free
- 5. If happiness and abundance are illegally obtained, they are worthless
- 6. Avoid Greed
- 7. Do not ask people
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- 1. Silence and speech
- 2. Be moderate, Do not squander, Do not be jealous, Do not Dissipate
- 3. The bitterness of despair is better than asking people for help
- 4.Little fortune plus chastity is better than big fortune which is gained through dishonesty
- 5. It is better for a man to keep his secrets
- 6. There are many strivers who struggle against themselves!
- 7. One who talks too much, says very little
- 8. Thinking is the basis of Insight
- 9. The effects and role of companionship
- 10. The worst food is the illegally gained food
- 11. Injustice to the weak is the worst of injustice
- 12. Sometimes showing severity is better than being tolerant
- 13. Sometimes medicines cause diseases and diseases become cure
- 14.Be aware of the intention of the Advice-giverS and the well- wishing of the Non-advice- givers
- 15. Reliance on wishes is foolishness
- 16. Wisdom is the keeping of Experiences
- 17. The Best Experiences
- 18. Taking Advantage of chances
- 19.Not every intender reaches his goals ; Nor does every absentee returns home
- 20.Destroying the provisions for the hereafter and th Resurrection day id a great one
- 21. Every Act Has An End
- 22. You will receive what it is determined for you to get
- 23. Little possession may sometimes yield better profits
- 24.Do not look for goodness in a wretched companion and in an accused friend
- 25. Patiently benefit from your time
- 27. Do not endanger your position for assumed benefits
- 28. Do not be stubborn
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- The role of friendship and the tasks imposed by it
- The Rights and limits of friendship in Imam Ali’s words
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- 1. Protecting the friendship bond
- 2. Be generous although he is a miser
- 3. When he takes distance from you, come closer to him
- 4. When he is engaged in harsh treatment take it easy on him
- 5. When he commits sins and offenses, accept his excuses
- 6. Be aware of the situations at all times
- 7. Never be friend of your friend's enemy
- 8. Be sincere with him in offering your advice whether he likes it or not
- 9. Calm Down when Nervous
- 10. Do good to your enemy
- 11.If you wished to disassociate with a friend a friend, do not destroy all the bridges
- 12. Confirm people’s good assumption towards you
- 13. Too Much friendship should not deprive him of his rights
- 14. Do Favors to your Household and Tribe
- 15. Do not Show affection Towards Anybody who does not wish to be your friend
- 16. In establishing relations and doing good …
- 17. An Unjust person does himself wrong
- 18. You should not mistreat anyone who has made you happy
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- 1. All kinds of sustenance
- 2.How improper it is to be humble when in need and be indifferent when in needlessness
- 3.What in this world which could rebuild our Hereafter would be worth of noting
- 5. Base your reasoning for future actions on the events of the past
- 6.The wise listen to advice through good manners , but the beasts do so through punishment
- 7.Avoid worries and sorrows through patience and real conviction
- 8. Putting aside moderation is injustice and deviation from rightousness
- 9. Your companion is like your relative
- 10. A true friend is the one who respects you in your absence
- 11. Sensuality is like blindness
- 12. Close strangers and strange relatives
- 13. A Stranger is the one who does not have any friends
- 14. An Aggressor to the truth will meet several Hurdles
- 15. Appreciation and demanding in accordance with …
- 16. The safest means between God and God's servant
- 17. One, Who betrays you when you are in need, is your enemy
- 18.In those cases where greed leads to one's destruction, it is better to resort to despair
- 19. Not every hidden defect becomes revealed and not every opportunity is attainable
- 20. A seeing man might go astray but a blind man might reach his destination
- 21.Hurry in Carrying out good ; do not hasten to perform evil since there is plenty of time for that
- 22.Cutting relations with an ignorant one equals having relations with a wise one
- 23. Do not disregard the deception of time
- 24. One who magnifies Time, time will humiliate him
- 25. An archer does not always hit the target
- 26. The disturbances in governments may affect time
- 27. Attention of fellow-voyagers and neighbors
- 28. Avoid telling jokes
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- Some of The works of the writer
- endnote
IMAM ALI’S FIRST TREATISE ON THE ISLAMIC ETHICS AND EDUCATION
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In The Name Of Allah, The Compassionate, The Merciful
As The human body needs food, clothing and a shelter, so does his soul need ethics and education. A person who is ignorant of the creation facts, who is not nurtured with moral conducts, and is not void of obnoxious traits is only superficially a human being; he is in fact far away from humanity. Regarding this, Sa'di from Shiraz (the famous poet) says:
What makes a human body honorable is his soul; beautiful garment does not make a man;
If eyes, tongues, ears and noses made a man;
Then what would the difference be between a man and a painting on the wall;
Be truly a man, or else you would be
A bird talking human language;
If you could eliminate your fierce nature you would live a human life all life-long.
For this very reason the significant portions of the agenda of the prophets and God-Sent messengers include education and the enhancement of ethical considerations and well-adjusted conducts.
These dignitaries, in accordance with the prevailing situations, have made use of either practical means and suitable behaviors, or sermons and maxims, or treatises.[1]
Among these treasures is the Treatise of Amir Al-Mo'menin (pbnh), which is the topic for the present translation. It is appropriate here to attract your attention to the following points:
What is Ethics?
According to the Islamic scholars,[2] ethics includes all human traits which are brought about either by heredity or environment and which make up his personality influencing his deeds, conducts thoughts and speech.
Raqeb in his Mofradat Al-Qur’an says that the two terms "Khalq"