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- Presentation
- Introduction
- The Meaning and Origin of Akhlaq
- Moral Virtues and Vices
- Diseases of the Soul and their Treatment
- Diseases of the Power of Intellect and Their Treatment
- Diseases of the Power of Anger and Their Treatment
- Other Vices of the Power of Anger
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- 1. Fear (khawf)
- 2. Self Depreciation or Inferiority Complex
- 3. Diffidence
- 4. Lack of the Sense of Dignity
- 5. Hastiness
- 6. Ill-feeling Towards the Creator and His Creation
- 7. Anger
- 8. Violence
- 9. Ill-temper
- 10. Rancour
- 11. Self-conceit and Vanity
- 12. Arrogance
- 13. Rebelliousness
- 14. Blindness to One's Faults
- 15. Fanaticism
- 16. Concealing Truth
- 17. Callousness and Cruelty
- Vices of the Power of Passion
- Joint Diseases of the Powers of Intellect, Anger, and Passion
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- 1. Jealousy (Hasad)
- 2. Harassing and Insulting Others
- 3. Frightening and Bothering Muslims
- 4. Indifference to the Affairs of Muslims
- 5. Negligence in Carrying Out the Duty of "Al-amr bil ma'ruf wal nahy 'an al-munhar"
- 6. Unsociableness
- 7. Breaking Ties with One's Family and Kin
- 8. Being undutiful to Parents
- 9. Finding Faults with Others and Exposing Their Shortcomings or Sins
- 10. Revealing Other People's Secrets
- 11. Shamatah
- 12. Taunting and Dispute (Ta'n wa Mujadalah)
- 13. Making Fun of Other People and Ridiculing Them
- 14. Joking
- 15. Backbiting (Ghibah)
- 16. Lying
- 17. Simulation (riya')
- 18. Hypocrisy (Nifaq)
- 19. Pride (Ghurur)
- 20. Having Elaborate and Far-Flung Hopes and Desires
- 21. Rebelliousness (`Isyan)
- 22. Shamelessness
- 23. Persistence in Sin (al-'israr `ala al-ma'siyah)
- 24. Neglect (Ghaflah)
- 25. Aversion (Karahah)
- 26. Sakhat
- 27. Huzn
- 28. Absence of Trust in God
- 29. Ingratitude (Kufran)
- 30. Jaza ` (Restlessness)
- 31. Fisq
Jami' al-Sa'adat (The Collector of Felicities)
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Author(s): Muhammad Mahdi ibn abi Dharr al-Naraqi
Translator(s): Shahyar Sadat
Publisher(s): Islamic Propagation Organization
Category: Ethics Spirituality
Congress Classification: BP247/7 /ن4ج204957 1300ی
Dewey Classification: 297/61
National bibliography numbers: 1334270
Topic Tags: Supplications Akhlaq Morality Soul Tawhid Miscellaneous information: Condensed from the Arabic by Muhammad Baqir Ansari
Featured Category: Muslim Practices Spirituality
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Meaning and Origin of Akhlaq, Moral Virtues and Vices, Diseases of the Soul and their Treatment, and Vices of Power and Passion.
Presentation
One of the most important of the Islamic sciences is ethics. All along the brilliant history of Islam, great Islamic scholars have specialized in this field and have produced important and valuable books dealing with this subject.
One of the best and the most comprehensive of these books is the Jami` al-Sa'adat ("The Collector of Felicities"), written by the great Islamic scholar, mystic, and moral philosopher, Muhammad Mahdi ibn Abi Dharr al-Naraqi, who himself was a living embodiment of Islamic ethical and moral virtues.
The book was written in Arabic and published in three volumes. Al-Naraqi was one of the most brilliant thinkers of the late 12th/18th and early 13th/lath century. Besides Jami` al-Sa'adat, al-Naraqi was also the author of a number of other important books.
In order to revive Islamic ethics in a world drowning in a whirlpool of materialism and which seem to have all but forgotten the eternal spiritual human values, we thought the effort worthwhile to condense this valuable work into few short articles for the benefit of those who may not have access to the contents of the original Arabic text.
Introduction
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