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- Introduction
- Lecture 1: Do Not Rebuild A Broken Dam
- Lecture 2: Human Intellect
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- It Is Impossible For Something To Come Into Existence Without A Creator
- The Fingernail
- Was The Creator Unaware?
- A Proof Of The Day Of Judgment
- The Pious Will Benefit From Allah’s Everlasting Rewards
- How Much Should Man Strengthen His Nature
- Greed Compels One To Commit Any Crime
- Bearing The Difficulties With Travelers Who Are Visiting Imām Husayn’s Grave
- I Wish I Could Be A Flower, But If I’m Not I Do Not Want To Be A Thorn
- Bashīr And Mubashshir Are The Same As Nakīr And Munkar
- Lecture 3: Prophets and Religious Laws Were Sent For Mankind
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- Knowing One’s Self Will Help In Ridding One’s Self Of Animalistic Characteristics
- Others are for you and you are for Allah
- Why Doesn’t A Dead Body Have Feelings?
- An Intellectual Proof Of The Immateriality Of The Soul
- Ability In All Fields
- They Have Forgotten Themselves
- Believers Will Enter Heaven With Young Bodies
- People Will Be Raised According To Their Nature
- The Spirit Has Pleasure Or Pain
- The Punishment Of The Hereafter Is Different Than The Punishment Of This World
- Perfection Is In The Hereafter
- Expect Mercy If You Were Merciful
- Imām Sajjād’s Conversation With His Servant
- Lecture 4: Divine Wisdom is Found From One’s Head To Toe
- Lecture 5: The Means Of Understanding Man’s Beginning And End
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- Lifeless Objects Are Unable To Create
- A Big Problem With Darwin’s Proposition
- Man’s Understanding Is Not An Offspring Of Something Material
- Encompassing Knowledge Is A Sign Of The Immaterial Soul
- The Body In The Hereafter is not Affected by Materialism
- The Rejectors Do Not Have Any Proof
- The Differences In People’s Faces
- Respecting Graves Is A Sign Of Accepting The Hereafter
- Hārūn And Mamūn Knew The Station Of The Imāms
- Love Of This World Is The Root Of Sin
- Lecture 6: Purifying One’s Self; Knowledge and Action
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- Habits Are Not Formed Spontaneously
- ‛Alī (A) Also Struggled To Perfect Himself
- Anger, An Animalistic Trait
- What should we do when we are left without Choice?
- Mālik Ashtar And A Young Man
- Should throwing a piece of dirt be rewarded with a Rock?
- Showing Patience in Anger is a Human Characteristic
- Muhaqqiq Tūsī’s Interesting Answer To An Ignorant Person
- How Does It Come To A Dispute?
- I Deserve More Pain
- Refraining From Anger Is Refraining From Spilling Blood
- Lecture 7: Anger is Both Merciful and Satanic
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- The Existence of Anger In Man Is Necessary
- Animalistic Anger
- Imām Sajjād (A) And The Servant That Killed His Son
- Do Not Get Angry From False Reports
- Acting In Opposition To Expectations Causes Unwarranted Anger
- Piety Strengthens One’s Faith And Coveteousness Weakens One’s Faith
- Lower Your Expectations
- Anger At Oppressors And Open Sin
- If One Over-Retaliates The Other Person has the Right to Counter-Retaliate
- The Hereafter Is For One Who Does Not Seek Superiority
- One’s Love Of The Hereafter Becomes Clear When One Is Angry Or Lustful
- Lecture 8: Lust Results In The Continuation Of Human Life
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- Spiritual Growth Is Also Found In Anger and Lust
- Becoming Too Angry Or Lustful Or Not Angry Or Lustful Enough Is Dangerous
- The Middle Course In Eating; Not Being Excessive
- A Colorful Dinner Table And Different Diseases
- One Must Follow The Middle Course In Sexual Desires As Well
- The Middle Course In Marriage Is Relative
- The Spiritual Benefits Of Making A Family
- Do Not Oppress Nor Be Oppressed
- Being Indifferent
- The Prophet (S) Did Not Want Respect
- Be Happy If Someone Did Not Treat You Ill
- The Prophet (S) And Imāms (A) Did Not Have Expectations
- We Should Not Expect Greetings And Respect
- Lecture 9: Lust And Anger Must Be In Accordance To One’s Intellect And Divine Decree
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- Physical And Spiritual Benefits Found In Food
- Worshipping One’s Stomach
- One, While Eating, Should Remember That Allah Blessed Him With This Food
- The Middle Course In Marriage And Anger
- The Prophet (S) Never Had Personal Anger
- Imām ‛Alī’ (A) And ‛Amr Bin ‛Abd Wudd
- Tribalism
- Tribalism Is Against The Divine Decree
- Loving One’s Family And Tribalism Are Two Different Things
- Justice
- Lecture 10: Showing Anger with The Tongue, Hand or Heart
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- Answer Bad With Good
- The Other Person Will Be Ashamed When You Act Well With Them
- An Eye For An Eye Limited By The Divine Decree
- Dignity And Comfort In Front Of Tribalism
- The Peace Treaty Of Hudaybīyah
- In Any Case, Muhammad (S) Is A Prophet
- Do Not Lose Your Calm
- Stepping Over The Limits Of Anger
- Do Not Bear Oppression At The Beginning
- Lecture 11: Envy Destroys One’s Health
- Lecture 12: Knowledge, Like Property and Social Status, Brings About Arrogance
- Lecture 13: The Cure of Arrogance, According To Imām ‛Alī (A)
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- One Becomes The Measure Of Reality When Arrogance Grows In One’s Spirit
- Arrogance Because Of Property Is The Result Of Being Ignorant About Reality
- Being Arrogant Because Of Knowledge Is Dangerous
- I Am The Lowest Of The Lowest
- I Feel Lower Than You
- An Undeserving Scholar’s Fanaticism
- Wanting To Serve People And Seeking Power Are Two Different Things
- The Cure Of Arrogance
- Practice Not Giving Orders
Islamic Ethics
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Author(s): Ayatullah Sayyid Abdul Husayn Dastghaib Shirazi
Translator(s): Hamid Hussein Waqar
Category: Ethics
Topic Tags: Ethics Akhlaq Islam Miscellaneous information: Purchase this book online:
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This is the English translation of the book: 'Akhlaq Islami' by Shaheed Ayatullah Sayyid 'Abd al-Hussayn Dastghayb, translated by Hamid Waqar. This book presents a discussion on the importance of Ethics in Islam covering areas like the intellect, religious laws and purifying one's self, and covering such topics as anger, lust, envy, arrogance, etc.
Introduction
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Prophet Muhammad (S) said: “I have not been sent except to perfect the ethical system (makārim al-akhlāq).”(1)
One's actions, when performed out of choice, are due to knowledge, belief and habits. For example, suppose one is thirsty, knows that water is near him and knows that water will relieve his thirst. In this case he will drink water because of his knowledge.
There are also examples of habits. For example, a stingy person will not want to help a needy person, even if he realizes his need, while a generous person will help a needy person without thinking about it. His generosity pushes him towards helping the needy person.
There are rules found in Islam with the purpose of obtaining correct beliefs and habits. The blessings of good habits are found in one's actions.
There are many traditions from the infallibles (a) that claim that good ethics were the Prophets' most important trait. They said that Allah gave them these high traits and that they encouraged mankind to obtain these high traits.(2)
Muhammad (S) Had The Best Ethical Traits
Prophets were chosen
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1- Shaykh ‛Alī Namāzī, Mustadrak Safīnat al-Bihār, volume 1, page 410.
2- Shaykh Kulaynī, Usūl al-Kāfī, volume 3, page 95.