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- Mission of the Prophets
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- Training and self-purification means knowledge and action
- Knowledge sans actions or a fruitless Branch
- Body and Soul
- Sins related to the body and soul
- Duty of the religious Scholars
- Compilation of Greater Sins, an Important Step
- Qalbe Saleem (Immaculate Conscience) and Gunahane Kabira (Greater Sins)
- Responsibility of the Respected Readers
- Sin of the Heart
- Quran and the sins of the heart
- Sin of the Heart or inner disease
- Paradise is the abode of only those who possess a perfect heart
- What is ‘disease of the heart’?
- Harmful effects of the diseases of the Heart
- Physical sins are caused by diseases of the Heart
- Depravity of the Society
- Jealousy, an Example
- A Healthy soul and a Healthy Body
- Cleanliness of the Body from the food consumed
- Spiritual Hygiene is also Important
- Prescription
- Materialist man has no spiritual cure
- Quran, The Message that Bestows life
- Refutation of a wrong notion
- A Wrong Notion
- To be cautious of Satanic whisperings is a sign of belief
- There is no other way
- An Astounding Fact
- Prescription is not a cure
- Disbelief is not the only Spiritual Disease
- Lack of belief is real ignorance
- A disbeliever is worse than animals
- The Dead
- Death of the Soul
- More Ugly than a Monkey!
- Peaceful life and a comfortable Hereafter
- Hope in Allah, the strongest support for a believer
- The disbeliever’s heart is a Horrible Ruin
- The Unbeliever’s dread will never end
- Joy and Sorrow
- Acquire as much belief as possible
- Belief means Certainty
- Conclusion of this Introduction
- First Disease-Disbelief
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- Consequence of Disbelief
- Two Types of Disbeliefs
- Disbelief Despite Knowledge
- Irreligious People
- Infidels of Mecca and Jews of Medina
- Worldly Punishment
- Two Inner Eyes
- An Objection and its Reply
- Blindness and Deafness
- O Irreligiousness!
- Cure for the Denial of the Origin and Hereafter
- Lack of knowledge is different from lack of realization that one lacks knowledge
- In Doubt
- Ray of Hope
- Difference in the Understanding capacity of Human beings and Animals
- Disbelievers are like Beasts
- Quranic Cure of Disbelief
- Precaution makes Sense
- The style of Imam Ja’far as-Sadiq (a.s.)
- A Good Tree
- Leaves, Branches and Fruits of the Tree of Belief
- Consequence of Disbelief
- Belief and Disbelief
- The Believer does no evil, the Infidel does no good
- Denial of Prophethood
- They did not recognize Allah!
- Benefit of a Guide
- Intellect in isolation is subdued by desires
- Denial of the Messengership of the Last Prophet
- Denial of Wilayat and Imamat
- Second Disease: Hypocrisy
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- Types of Hypocrisy
- First Type: Hypocrisy against Allah regarding actual faith
- Dissimulation and its Types
- Difference between Dissimulation and Hypocrisy
- Second Type: Hypocrisy with Allah Regarding the Necessities of faith
- A Believer is not a Habitual sinner
- Spending in Allah’s way is a sign of Hope in Allah
- False claim of Piety and Religiousness
- Hypocrisy with Allah regarding the worship acts
- Sins that cause Hypocrisy
- Third Type: Hypocrisy with people
- The worst folks on Judgment Day
- Difference between Dissimulation and False Praise
- Double-Facedness
- Punishment in proportion to Hypocrisy
- Justice of Allah, Intercession and Repentance
- Verbal Repentance
- Heartfelt Regret
- Divine Mercy
- Cure of Hypocrisy with Allah
- Deceiving Oneself
- Respite
- Loss in the world and the Hereafter
- Deceit to Counter Deceit
- Repentance from Hypocrisy
- Conditions for leaving hypocrisy
- Cure of Sins related to the Soul
- Sincerity is the only way
- Performing good deeds secretly
- Cure for Hypocrisy with people
- Hypocrisy of States
- Hypocrisy is widespread
- Worldly Harm of Hypocrisy
- Result of Jealousy
- Spiritual harm of Hypocrisy
- Animal Qualities
- Men who are Satans
- Humans have a higher status than Angels
- Truth and Reality
- Giving up Hypocrisy
- Some customs that are against Reality
- Third Disease: Polytheism
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- From the height of Monotheism to the depravity of Polytheism
- The Demand of Humanity : Monotheism
- Cannot ever create a Mosquito
- Types of False Deities
- Worship of the most lowly things
- Excuses for Idol Worship
- Allah is Near but He has no body!
- Worship of the Four Elements
- Sun, Moon and the Stars
- From the aspect of creation, Earth is like the Moon and Stars
- False beliefs
- Worship of Trees and Division of Good and Evil
- The Nature of Man says that God is One
- Polytheism in Actions
- Idol-worship is open Polytheism
- The Polytheism of Ahlul Kitab is Hidden Polytheism
- Extremists and believers in ‘delegation’ (Tafweez) are also Polytheists
- Obedience of the Lord
- People who make legal things illegal and illegal things legal
- Following the scholars of false religions is also Polytheism
- Quality of the Shia Jurisprudents
- Polytheism along with worship
- We should try to Understand the meaning of ‘Allah’s Slavery’
- Obedience in every moment of life
- He should not serve anyone else
- Worshipping the Desires
- Slave of many masters and Slave of One Master
- Steadfastness in Monotheism
- An Example
- Polytheism in seeking the help of causes
- We should repose hope in the final cause
- Obeying someone in sin is also Polytheism
- Swearing by anyone else is not Prohibited
- Practice for Monotheism
- Do not Hide faith by oppression
- Believers in Difficulties and Polytheists in Comfort
- Forgetting the Favors
- A Wrong Notion
- All blessings are from Allah
- When the fact will be known
- They have come alone and would return alone
- Imploring the Causes is Deviation
- One who forgets Allah, gets himself forgotten
- Monotheism of Actions
- Strengthen your Faith
- Verbal confession is not enough
- Worship of carnal desires is contrary to the belief in Monotheism
- Attention on belief in monotheism through words and deeds
- Hope from Allah and fear of Sins
- More subtle than the footfall of an Ant
- Making someone a medium (Wasilah) for God is not polytheism
- To augur evil is a kind of polytheism
- What is a superstition?
- Sneeze is a blessing
- ‘Inauspicious moment’ is also nonsense
- Amirul Momineen (a.s.) marches to Naharwan
- Marched at the same time and returned victorious
- Crowing of the crow
- To consider someone as auspicious or inauspicious is also nonsense
- Misunderstanding
- Inauspiciousness lies in wrong beliefs and disapproved qualities
- Do not care for Bad Omen
- Travel on Wednesday and its Supplication
- We must always augur good
- Auguring evil is related to polytheism
- Conclusion
- Making Imams as intermediaries is not polytheism
- Visitation (Ziyarat) is not deification
- Respecting the kings and rulers
- Taking someone as intermediary is different from considering him a deity
- After the demise of the Holy Prophet (S)
- Prophet Yaqub (a.s.) interceded for his sons
- Hidden Wisdoms of Intercession
- Cure of the disease of polytheism
- Cause and Effect
- Effect of the causes
- Man is helpless in creation
- Will of Allah
- One should say ‘If Allah wills’ (Insha Allah)
- With the expectations being broken
- Dua Faraj and release of Hasan Muthanna
- Beyond the Will of Allah
- If you could only understand!
- Necessary to understand
- He may forgive us
- Dua Jaushan Kabir and Dua Arafah
- Fourth Disease: Doubt
- What is doubt?
- Doubt is a sign of the disease of heart
- Doubt is a serious disease
- Nothing but Allah
- Loss in both the worlds
- Do not doubt! You may become an infidel
- One who doubts in Allah is an infidel
- Good deeds in the state of doubt are useless
- Destruction forever
- This is not reasonable
- Way to Paradise
- Punishment of the Hereafter is not revenge
- Another Misunderstanding
- Allah is not hidden from any sensible being
- Then who are these people?
- The blind cannot see the sun
- They do not want to recognize the truth
- The book of nature should be read with attention
- Knowledge of the Universe
- Advancement of science
- Why don’t we care about Recognition of God?
- Courage is low and limited to material pleasures
- An historic example of an elevated spirit
- Wealth, Position and Lust
- Spiritual Pleasures are many times tastier
- Continued praying though hit with arrows
- The brave ones of Karbala
- Science supports belief of Monotheism
- The Purpose of all creation is recognition of God
- Worship and Knowledge of Allah
- The Remedy of doubt and the position of certainty
- Power of electricity
- Purification of filth
- Belief is a natural thing
- One kind of Creation cannot be changed into another kind
- Firmness on Monotheism is an excellence
- If man seriously tries he can definitely gain Allah’s recognition
- Awakening of conscience
- 1. Darwin
- 2. Raeng
- 3. Rumien
- 4. Faraday
- Islam is a natural religion
- When there is none to hear the plea
- Divine help to seek knowledge
- Do not deliberate on Allah’s Being
- The Flight of thought is limited
- How we believe in the unseen God?
- Eyes only see material things
- Three questions-a single reply
- Some scientists
- A Drop of Sea
- The Ant and The Telephone Pole
- Recognition of God and Science are related to each other
- An Eternal and Everlasting power
- The Universe and its Creator
- Brief statements of other thinkers
- Removal of Dirt
- Cure of Self-worship
- Self Recognition
- Don’t consider yourself free
- Beastly pleasures and desires
- The Most dangerous pain of the heart
- Allah is Manifest, but veils of desires intervene
- Preoccupation makes one forget Allah
- We have lost the way
- A Miserable time
- Social life must also not be forsaken
- The Self of man, and Satan
- Congregational prayer and Hajj
- Then, what to do?
- Islamic laws and acting on them
- Five times purification every twenty-four hours
- Every act has a particular effect
- Remembering death purifies the heart
- Everything should be within limits
- Pleasure of Supplication
- Worship slashes the veil
- It is a difficult but important task
- Assimilation
- Contemplation
- Material Progress
- Another World
- This world is for divine recognition (Ma’arifat)
- Contemplation is the best worship act
- Contemplation results in good deeds
- How to contemplate?
- Contemplation is the way of recognition
- Hands of the clock
- The Human Body
- Habit or Warning
- Study the Quran
- The Infidel king and the Pious vizier
- Discussion of Ali Bin Mitham
- White and Yolk of an egg
- Words of Allah
- A Great Power
- Shaddad could not see his self-made Paradise
- Pharaoh was disappointed
- Nimrod, Abraha and Prophet Sulaiman (a.s.)
- Remembrance of Allah
- Pride on ancestry
- Remembrance and thanks all the time
- One Breath
- Man forgets himself
- Man is not only a physical body
- The Best and the most Difficult work
- Importance of Remembering Allah
- This is watchfulness
- Prophet Yusuf (a.s.) and Zulaikha
- Allah is watching
- What the shepherd said
- A slave of Allah
- Verbal remembrance
- The Four Praises
- The More the Better
- Excellence of the Midnight Prayer
- Emphasis on the Midnight Prayer
- Those who wake up at dawn
- Twenty-six Qualities of the Midnight Prayer
- Method of the Midnight Prayer
- Stages of Faith
- Three stages of Infidelity
- A Condition of a True Believer
- Obligatory and Recommended Deeds
- Deviation of the Sufis
- People of Perception
- Fondness of Allah’s proximity
- The Great Signs of Certainty
- Certainty is Peace and Doubt is Perplexity
- Everything belongs to Allah
- People of certainty are satisfied in all conditions
- Fear and Hope only from Allah
- Importance of a Deed is based on certainty
- It is Better to Sleep with certainty of Faith
- Love of the world
- What does ‘world’ mean?
- Only Deeds Remain
- Worship is an action devoid of the love of the world
- For the eternal world
- Love the Hereafter
- Love the world for the Hereafter
- Worldly bounties for the pleasure of Allah
- It is better if it is for the Hereafter
- Temporary love of the world is not Blameworthy
- Signs of the love of the world for the sake of the Hereafter
- Permanent Love of the world
- Ranks of Worldly love
- Loving the world too much
- A heart imbued with the love of Allah becomes empty of the love of the world
- Does one become a true believer by merely claiming faith?
- The Heart–moving words of Amirul Momineen(a.s.)
- How, loving the world is disobedience?
- Is the love of the world natural?
- Removing the Love of the world from the Heart
- Since the love of the world begets poverty and destitution it is not obligatory to forgo it
- It is a Voluntary act to have more and more love for the Hereafter
- The Universe would disintegrate if there is no love for the world
- Love of the world is not absolutely unlawful
- Piety means that the heart becomes devoid of the love of the world
- Deeds Performed for Allah are more Beneficial
- Love of the world is the source of all Evil
- Love of the world be gets Evil
- Conclusion of the above Discussion
- Promise of Chastisement for the world-worshippers
- Four Noteworthy points in this verse
- Satisfied with the life of this world
- Nostalgia of a traveler
- Peace for the world-worshippers
- Ignoring the Signs of Allah
- Place of comfort for the world-worshippers
- Ignoring the Remembrance of God
- The Love of the world has sealed the Hearts
- The Utmost limit of Deviation
- They left behind the Difficult Day
- On the crossroads of the world and the Hereafter
- Three Groups
- Love of the world is the source of all evil
- Trouble from the moment of death
- Prophet Isa (a.s.) and his companions
- Love of the world disables reason
- The world and the Hereafter are deadly foes of each other
- The Second Level – Where the love of the world is preferable
- Exposition of the Verse
- Love for Allah necessitates love for His friends
- Love for the faith is love for Allah
- Take your Account
- Do we seek the pleasure of Ahlul Bayt?
- Ahlul Bayt consider him an Enemy
- Love of Ahlul Bayt is obedience of Allah
- All good deeds result from love of God
- Twenty characteristics of the love for Ahlul Bayt
- Intellect of man informs about his mistake
- The criterion of the love of the Creator is divine recognition, not seeing Him with our physical eyes
- Thus why does the love of Allah not inhabit the heart?
- Divine Recognition and love for the Hereafter
- What Amirul Momineen (a.s.) says regarding Paradise and the Chosen People
- Additional verse on the unlawfulness of the love of the world
- Those who preferred the comforts of the world
- Some notable verses
- Allah does not like those who are proud and vain
- What is that unlawful glee?
- Further Explanation
- Signs of the Thankful and the Denier
- Thankfulness for a Bounty is more valuable than the Bounty itself
- Self-pride distances one from Allah
- Unlawful despair in the world
- Do not eye others’ property
- Explanation of Muhaqqiq Ardebeli
- Conclusion derived from the above verses
- Desiring the world brings trouble
- Love of the world causes fearlessness of and despair from Allah
- Sorrows of the world and the Hereafter
- Good Deeds, but Aimless
- Those who sacrifice the Hereafter on the world
- Good deeds without sincerity
- One who loves the world is not eligible for salvation
- That which Allah hates
- Enmity of the world is the best deed
- Sayings of the elders about the different kinds of deeds
- More harmful than hungry wolves
- World-worshipping scholars are robbers on the path of Allah
- Followers of the world-worshipping scholar also become like him
- Status-seekers are accursed
- Musa advises his scholar friend
- Beasts in Human Forms
- Ali (a.s.) introduces the Animals
- The Third Rank is Detestable
- That which stalls perfection of faith and human upliftment
- Love for anyone or anything other than God takes one away from God
- Divine injunction about such degree of attachment
- Let not the wealth and children make you negligent of remembering God
- Those who cannot be stopped from remembering God
- Worldly Beauties are Merely a Test
- The Primary and Secondary Aims of Creation
- How people are Tested through worldly Adornments
- Paradise is a better place for the pious
- A Wonderful narration regarding worldly love
- Love for the world is universal
- Three Groups of Theists
- Unmindful Worshippers
- All are equal in this matter
- Self-Glorification of Jews and Christians
- Why are you afraid of death?
- Evil of running away from Religious Scholars
- O Master of the Age! Hasten your arrival!
- When intelligence will become perfect
- Our Responsibility in the present age
- Crooked thinking of the unwise and its answer
- An advice for the Faithful
- Divine Messengers are more worthy of emulation
- An example worth pondering over
- The world tries to entice Ali (a.s.)
- How to wipe out the love for the world?
- Is Quran revealed as a Good Luck Charm?
- Love for the Hereafter and Negligence do not go together
- Lessening the love of the world
- Worldly love comes in the way of Gathering provision for the Hereafter
- This Illness must be remedied
- Danger upto the brink of grave
- Excessiveness of lust and intensity of anxiety
- Increase in Greed
- Growing Anxieties
- Envy, anger and Fearlessness
- Annoyance
- Fearlessness
- The Difficulty of Death
- Last moments of Abu Zakaria
- Gold coins and a creditor
- Flight from good advice
- Ponder over the Holy Quran
- (1) La’b (play)
- (2) Lahv (vain pastimes)
- (3) Beautification
- (4)Self Glorification
- (5) Abundance of wealth and children
- Do not pass on cursorily, but ponder
- Youth also was a spring season, which passed away
- This world is a place of warning
- Wise words of Amirul Momineen (a.s.) about instability of the world
- Those who are blind in seeing the Hereafter and run after the world
- When will you work for the Hereafter?
- Amirul Momineen (a.s.) forbids excess
- Success in this world is failure in Hereafter
- Light of wisdom, the result of worldly piety
- What is Piety and who is a Pious person?
- Examples of worldly life
- A beautiful but dreadful snake
- A strange story about a snake
- Luqman’s Admonition to his son
- Intention
- Intention for sinning and remaining pleased with it
- Instances of sinful advances
- Verses and Narrations
- Deeds will be questioned about, be they open or hidden
- Good intention too will be rewarded
- Punishment for spreading scandals
- Who will be admitted to Paradise?
- Why did they kill the Prophets?
- Allah will hold you responsible on the basis of your intention
- Is intention better or worse than the deed itself?
- The killer and the killed, both in Hell
- Those who have been cursed
- Whoever threatens a believer will go to Hell
- One who is pleased with an act is a partner in that act
- Imam az-Zaman (a.s.) will take revenge
- The Killer of Shuaib’s she-camel was an individual but..
- Reason supports such narrations
- Statements of Shaykh Bahai
- Intention of sin has been pardoned
- Addition of a Good deed
- A sin not actually done will not be recorded
- Canceling of intention is the expiation for a sinful wish
- Intention of sinning without preliminaries of the act
- One should at least be cautious
- Intention to obey God
- For a poor person, intention to donate is charity
- Reward of Night Prayer Recorded
- A Believer and the Good Deeds He could not do
- He is with us because of his intention!
- With the martyrs of Karbala
- The wound of the battle of Siffin lasted for several years
Qalbe Saleem: Immaculate Conscience
BOOK ID
Title: Qalbe saleem: immaculate conscience
Author(s): Ayatullah Sayyid Abdul Husayn Dastghaib Shirazi
Publisher(s): Qum , Ansariyan publication، 2000 = 1379.
Appearance: 382 p
Congress Classification: BP247/8/د5ق 804952 1379
Dewey decimal classification: 297/61
National bibliography number: م 84-28143
Category: Ethics
Topic Tags: Ethics Immaculate Conscience
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سرشناسه : دستغیب، عبدالحسین، 1360 - 1292
Dastghaib, Abdul Hussain
عنوان قراردادی : [قلب سلیم. انگلیسی]
عنوان و نام پدیدآور : Qalbe saleem: immaculate conscience/ by Dastghaib Shirazi; translated by Athar Husain S. H. Rizvi
مشخصات نشر : QumAnsariyan publication، 2000 = 1379.
مشخصات ظاهری : ص 382
وضعیت فهرست نویسی : فهرستنویسی قبلی
یادداشت : کتابنامه به صورت زیرنویس
عنوان دیگر : قلب سلیم. انگلیسی
عنوان دیگر : Qalbe Saleem: immaculate conscience
ترجمه عنوان : (قلب سلیم ...)
موضوع : اخلاق اسلامی
شناسه افزوده : رضوی، اطهر حسین ، .Rizvi, Athar Husainمترجم
رده بندی کنگره : BP247/8/د5ق 804952 1379
رده بندی دیویی : 297/61
شماره کتابشناسی ملی : م 84-28143
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An elaborate text that describes extensively the sins and diseases of the heart, as seen through the light of the Qur'an and the narrations (ahadith) of the Ahlulbayt ('a).
Mission of the Prophets
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He it is Who raised among the inhabitants of Mecca an Apostle from among themselves, who recites to them His communications and purifies them, and teaches them the Book and the Wisdom, although they were before certainly in clear error. (Surah Jum’ah 62:2)
Quranic verses like the one quoted above and traditions of Ahlul Bayt show that the primary aim of sending the Prophets was to teach and train the people and to purify them.
These two things themselves have a special aim. Training and purification of self is indispensable to the perfection of humanity.
They are so closely related to each other that they cannot be separated. Both of them are required to achieve the perfection of human beings. Without them, humanity will not reach to perfection. If this were not true the Almighty Allah would not have made the aim if His Prophets as such.
Training and self-purification means knowledge and action
1) Training: Training denotes the missionary program sent by Allah and it is related to Him.
And teaches them the Book and the Wisdom. (Surah Jumah 62:2).
This portion of the verse shows that training is related to two things, 'Book' and 'Wisdom'. Actually both are one and the same. 'Book' means the knowledge of
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