Mizan al-Hikmah

Mizan al-Hikmah (Scale of Wisdom) Muhammad Muhammadi Reyshahri Introduction ‘Ashura ‘Ashura The Abased People The Virtue of Abased People The Return of Power to the Abased People Spiritual Weakness The Account The Account Enjoinment of Accounting for One’s Self The Fruit of Taking Account of Oneself The First Thing That Man Will Be Asked About That Which One is Not Accountable For That Which One Will be Held Accountable For That Which Will Make the Account Easier on the Day of Resurrection The Categories of People during the Account The Adverse Account Those Whose Account Will Be Easy Those Who Will Enter Paradise Without Accounting Those Who Will Enter the Fire Without Accounting Action Enjoinment of Action Action and Recompense Maintenance of Continuous Action The Best of Actions He Whose Deeds Do Not Benefit Him Deeds That One Must Be Cautious of Perfection of a Good Deed The Exposition of Deeds The Book of Deeds Embodiment of Deeds Adornment Adornment The Best Adornment Affliction The Reward for (Enduring an) Affliction The Worst of Afflictions To Say “Indeed we belong to Allah and to Him do we indeed return” when Struck with an Affliction The Etiquette of Dealing with an Affliction Factors that Ease Afflictions Gloating at Another’s Affliction Aggression Aggression The Agressor Fighting Against Muslim Agressors The Permission to Kill One Who Declares Enmity Towards the Im?m of the Muslims Agriculture The Divine Recommendation of Cultivation and Agriculture Alcohol Alcohol The Reason for the Prohibition of Alcohol The Consequence of Drinking Alcohol Interacting with an Alcohol Drinker How an Alcohol Drinker Will be Resurrected Enjoinment of Abandoning Alcohol even if it be for Other Than Allah The Prohibition of That Which Produces the Same Effects as Alcohol Allah The Meaning of Allah Allah's Pleasure Factors that Elicit Allah's Pleasure Signs of Allah's Pleasure Pleasing People at the Expense of Allah's Displeasure Alms-Tax (Zakat) The Obligatory Alms-Tax The Role of the Alms-Tax in the Increase of Wealth The One Who Refuses to Pay the Alms-Tax Those Who are Entitled to Receive the Alms-Tax There is a zakat for Everything Obligatory Alms-Tax Payable on ‘Ahd al-Fitr Amicableness Amicableness Amity Amity There is no Good in Someone who Does not Like others, Nor Is He Liked by Them Anger Anger is the Key to All Evils Enjoinment of Controlling One’s Anger Enjoinment of Suppressing One’s Anger The Remedy for Anger The Praiseworthiness of Anger for the Sake of Allah Animals The Rights of Animals The Answer [Allah’s] Antipathy Those Whom Allah Despises The People Allah Despises Most Acts Despised By Allah Malice Anxiety Warning Against Anxiety Asceticism The Virtue of Asceticism The Real Meaning of Asceticism Qualities of the One Who Practices Asceticism Factors that Elicit Asceticism The Benefits of Asceticism The Most Abstemious of People Assurance Assurance Adhering To Sureties Respecting Covenants of Protection Backbiting Prohibition of Backbiting Backbiting and Faith The Meaning of Backbiting People whom one is allowed to Backbite Listening to Backbiting The Reward for Deterring Backbiting The Penance for Backbiting Banes The Bathhouse The Bathhouse Beauty Allah is Beautiful and He Loves Beauty The Beautiful Image Honoring One’s Hair Inner Beauty Betrayal Betrayal Explanation of Betrayal and the Betrayer The Peak of Betrayal The Blessing The Blessed That Which Brings Blessing And That Which Removes It Bribery Bribery The Brother The Believers Are Brothers True Brothers Brothers’ Amity That Which Ensures the Endurance of Amity Brotherhood for the Sake of Allah Brotherhood For The Sake Of This World Informing One’s Brother Of One’s Love [For Him] One’s Amity for Another is a Proof of Reciprocity Cutting Off Relations with Brothers Maintaining Brotherhood Types of Brothers Warning Against Some Forms Of Brotherhood Preserving Old Brotherhood Real Brotherhood Choosing a Brother Tolerating the Lapse of a Brother The Best of Brothers The Worst of Brothers Testing Brothers Advising Brothers Honoring and Glorifying One’s Brothers Fulfilling Brothers’ Needs The Etiquette of Brotherhood Brushing One's Teeth Enjoinment of Brushing One's Teeth The Benefits of Brushing One's Teeth Etiquette of Brushing Teeth The Call For Prayer The Call for Prayer The Caller to Prayer Reciting the Call for Prayer in the Ears Captive Surrendering Oneself to Captivity is Not Allowed Treatment Of The Prisoner Of War Character Good Naturedness (Character) The Consequences of Good Naturedness Explanation of Good Naturedness High Moral Virtues Explanation of Noble Moral Traits The Best of the Noble Moral Traits The Fruits of Good Naturedness Ill Nature The Final Outcome of the Ill-natured Person The Best Virtues The Link Between Various Traits Charity The Virtue of Charity Allah’s Firsthand Receipt of Charities Charity and Repelling Adversities Charity is the Key to (Increased) Sustenance Every Kindly Act is Considered Charity The Best Form of Charity The Virtue of Giving Charity in Secret and Its Good Effects The Amount of Charity to be Given The Recipients of Charity The Etiquette of Giving Cheerfulness The Chief The Chief Requirements of Chiefdom Factors that Repel Chiefdom Childhood Childhood Clemency Clemency What Brings About Clemency The Fruits of Clemency The Interpretation of Clemency Clemency During Anger Comfort Factors that Bring About Comfort Seeking Comfort in This World Commerce Commerce Abandoning Commerce The Etiquette Of Trading The Prohibition Of Cheating [By Giving Less Than Due] In Trade Enjoinment Upon The Trader To Give Charity Leniency in Selling and Buying Bargaining Equality Between One Who Bargains And One Who Does Not The Profit of a Believer from Another The Iniquity of Merchants The Merchant’s Veracity The One Who Promotes His Commodity by Oaths The Trade Of The Hereafter Trading Does Not Divert the Believer Trade and Religion Common Courtesy Common Courtesy Enjoinment of Spreading Kindness to Both Good and Bad People Circulation of Good Acts From Hand to Hand Prohibition of Making Someone Feel Obliged for an Act of Courtesy Completion of a Good Act Prohibition of Holding Acts of Common Courtesy in Contempt The Mark of Acceptance of a Good Act The Reward for Good Acts Compassion The Enjoinment of Compassion Towards One Another Those That Are Most Deserving of Compassion Condemnation The Censure of Condemnation Condolence Condoling with one who is Grief-Stricken What to Say When Giving Condolences to a Grief-Stricken Person Congratulating the Grief-Stricken is More Appropriate than Condoling Him The Congregation Allah’s Hand is with the Congregation The Interpretation of Congregation Conjecture Conjecture and Reason Look for the Best in Any Situation Involving a Fellow Brother The Virtue in Entertaining Good Opinions Caution against Entertaining Low or Suspicious Opinions Avoiding That Which Incites Suspicious Thoughts Instances When Suspicion is Allowed Consanguinal Relations Reconciliation with One's Kin The Benefits of Maintaing Relations With One’s Kin Reconciling With One Who Cuts You Off Caution against Cutting Ties With One's Kin The Least One Can Do To Maintain Relations With One's Kin Corruption That Which Corrupts People in General 1. Sin 2. Dissention 3. Preventing the truth Who are the Corruptors? That Which Repels Corruption Counsel Enjoinment of Consultation People Whose Counsel Should Not Be Sought People Whose Counsel is Worthy of Being Sought Enjoinment of Guiding One Who Seeks Your Counsel The Role of the Counsel in Government Courage Courage That Which Engenders Courage The Most Courageous of People The Bane of Courage Covenant The Covenant Covetousness Covetousness The Covetous The Elements of Covetousness Cowardice Cowardice The Coward and Conquests Creation The Origin of Creation The First Thing that Allah – Glory be to Him – Created The Creation of the World The Greatness of What is Hidden from Us of Creation The Creator The Call of the Intellect to Repel Probable Harm Affirmation of the Existence of the Creator 1. Innate Knowledge 2- The Law of Causality 3- Signs in Existence 4. Cancellation of Firm Intentions and Failure of Ambitions Attributing Creation to Nature Debt Beware of Debt Permission to Incur Debt when in Need Encouragement to Write a Contract for Any Loan Prohibition of the Postponement of Repaying Debts Delusion The Censure of Delusion Deluding Oneself about Allah Being Deluded By This World Self-Delusion Differences Mankind Were a Single (Religious) Community Encouragement to Discard Differences Explanation of ‘The Separation of My Community is a Mercy’ Explanation of Congregation and Separation The Cause of Separation Disgrace Disgrace A Believer Must Never Disgrace Himself That Which Brings About Disgrace The Dispute Blameworthy Dispute Positive Debating Divine Mercy Allah's Divine Mercy Factors that Elicit Allah's Mercy Divorce The Censure of Divorce The Wisdom in Restricting the Divorce to Three Times Doubt Doubt Causes and Effects of Doubt Factors That Dispel Doubt The Aspects of Doubt Dreams Glad Tidings in Dreams Categories of Dreams Interpretation of Dreams Eloquence The Most Eloquent Speech Manipulation Through Speech Employment Employment Divine Disapproval of Offering Oneself for Hiring Employment Agents Wronging the Worker Informing [The Worker] of Wages and the Etiquette of Payment The End The End What Brings About a Good Final Outcome Enjoining Good And Prohibiting Wrong Enjoining Good and Prohibiting Wrong The Danger in Abandoning the Enjoinment of Good and the Prohibition of Wrong He Who Contents Himself with a People’s (Wrong) Action The Conditions to Be Observed by One Who Enjoins Good The Lowest Level of Prohibition of Wrong Enmity Enmity Prohibition of Showing Enmity towards Anyone The Seed of Enmity One Who Must Be Considered an Enemy Your Archenemy Caution Against Feeling Secure from One’s Enemy Reconciling With One’s Enemies How to Arm Oneself Against Enemies People’s Hostility Towards That Which They are Ignorant of Evil Evil The Yardstick of Good and Evil Worse than Evil The Keys to All Evils The Merging of Evils Man's Natural Tendency for Evil Expectation Expectation is a Mercy Expectations Never Cease Warning Against False Expectations Expectation and Death The Results of High Expectations Low Expectation Prohibition of Placing One’s Expectation in Other than Allah Experience Experience Experience And Reason Extremism (In Religion) Extremism (In Religion) Caution against Extremism (in Religion) Faith Faith Faith (Iman) and Islam The Reality of Faith Faith and Action Faith and Sins That Which Completes Faith Increase of Faith The Levels of Faith The Pillars of Faith The Strongest Bonds of Faith Steadfast and Temporary Faith That Which Consolidates Faith The Taste of Faith Inability to Taste the Sweetness of Faith That Which Removes One from Faith That Which Repels Faith The Great Status of the Believer The Believers Are As One Body Who is the Believer? The Firmness of the Believer Everything is in Awe of the Believer The Scarcity of the [True] Believer The Signs of the Believer The Best of Believers The Merit of One Who Believes in the Prophet without Having Seen Him Falsehood Warning followers of falsehood Discerning The Truth From Falsehood The Truth Disguised As Falsehood Falsehood Cannot be Ascertained as the Truth Fame Fame Praiseworthy Fame Blameworthy Fame The Censure of Clothing or Acts of Worship That Draw Attention Fasting Fasting Enjoinment of Fasting of One’s Own Accord The Etiquette of Fasting The Virtue of Fasting in Hot and Cold Weather The Fault Praise for One Whose Own Fault Preoccupies Him from Finding Fault in Others The Censure of Preoccupying Oneself with Others’ Faults Whilst Flattering Oneself Concealing Faults Conferring Someone’s Faults to Them Pursuit of People’s Faults Covering Up Faults He Who is Ignorant of Something Finds Fault With It Fear Fear The Believer Lies between Two Fears The Marks of the Fearful One Explanation of Fear The Fruits of Fear Caution Against Fearing Other than Allah How One Should React When in Fear of Something Awesome Miscellaneous Feeding Others The Virtue of Feeding a Hungry Person ‘Id, The Festival ‘Id, The Festival Nayruz The Adornment of the Festivals Food Little [Consumption of] Food Eating Excessively Among The Vices Of Gluttony Hunger Balance of Eating Table Manners Foolishness Foolishness The Characteristics of a Fool Taking the Fool as a Companion The Most Foolish of People Answering the Fool Fornication Prohibition of Fornication Consequences of Fornication Every Limb Has Its Own Share of Fornication Freedom Freedom All People Are Free The Distinguishing Trait of the Free Friday Friday Bathing On Friday The Friday Prayer The Friday Prayer Etiquette of Listening to the Sermon The Friend The Friend Resemblance of Souls People Whom One Should Befriend People Whom One Must Not Befriend That Which Corrupts a Friendship The Extent of One’s Friendship The Best of The Right of One’s Companion Generosity Generosity The Generous Person The Extent of Generosity Recommended Good Good Actions encompassed by Goodness How the Good of this World and the Hereafter is Obtained Explanation of Good When Allah Wants Good for a Servant If Allah Wants Good for a Community Enjoinment of Hastening to Undertake Good Deeds The Best of Matters Prohibition of Contempt for Little Good The Criteria for Good and Evil The Characteristics of Good People What is Better Than Goodness The Worth of One Who Guides Towards Good The Good Deed The Good Deed Multiple Requital of Good Deeds Good-Doing Good-Doing Good-Doing to the Wrongdoer The Meaning of Good-Doing He Who Does Good Benefits His Own Soul The Consequence of the Polytheists’ Acts of Good Good Manners Good Manners Good Manners and the Mind Disciplining The Self That Which Brings About Good Manners The Effects of Good Manner Explaining Good Manners The Best Manners Encouraging The Teaching Of Good Manners To Children How To Teach Good Manners What Must Be Observed When Teaching Good Manners Disciplining Oneself By The Discipline Of Allah Allah’s Discipline Good Repute Enjoinment of Keeping Up One’s Reputation The Reward for Refraining from Tarnishing Fellow Muslims’ Reputations The Reward for Defending the Reputation of a Fellow Muslim Government The Necessity Of Government The Rule Of Wicked People The Value of Government The Greater Jihad Forms of Jihad Enjoinment of Combatting the Self The Greater Jihad What is Necessary for Combatting the Self The Fruit of Struggle Greed Reprehension of Greed Praiseworthy Avidity The Habit The Habit Overcoming the Habit The Difficulty of Removing a Habit Habitual Practice Enjoinment of Adopting (Good) Habitual Practices The Recompense of One Who Establishes a Habitual Practice Prohibition of Discontinuing a Good Practice The Pilgrimage (Hajj) The [Obligatory] Pilgrimage (Hajj) The Philosophy of the Pilgrimage Pilgrimage Repels Poverty That Which Completes the Pilgrimage The Consequence of Abandoning the Obligatory Pilgrimage Deferring [Pilgrimage] to the House The Scarcity of [Sincere] Pilgrims The Etiquette of the Pilgrim The Respect due to Ihram The Reward of One Who Dies on the Way to Hajj The Presence of the Hidden Imam [al-Mahdi] during Hajj Happiness What To Be Happy About The Basics of Happiness One Who Fills Others' Hearts With Happiness Whoever Makes Another Believer Happy Makes Allah Happy The Reward for Alleviating a Fellow Believer of His Sorrows Harm Abstaining from Harm Harm Harming a Believer Haste Haste Rushing to Do Good Deeds Hell Hell The Chains and Shackles of Hell The Garments of the People of the Fire The Food of the People of the Fire The Drink of the People of the Fire The First to Enter the Fire The People with the Least Pain The People with the Greatest Pain The Valley of the Arrogant Those Who Will Be Made to Remain in Hell Permanently Those Who Will Leave the Fire The Reason for Perpetuity in Hell Hoarding Hoarding The Hoarder Honor The Explanation of Honor Factors that Elicit Honor That Which Causes Honor To Last Hope Enjoinment of True Hope Caution Against Placing One's Hopes in Anyone Other Than Allah Hospitality Hospitality People Who One Should Invite as Guests Enjoinment of Accepting the Invitation of a Fellow Believer Making a Special Effort for One’s Guest The Etiquette of Hospitality Housing Spacious Housing Caution Against Building More Housing Than Necessary for One's Living Selling a House Humility Humility The Characteristics of the Humble Idleness Idleness Ignorance Ignorance The Ignorant The Most Ignorant of People What is Sufficient to be Considered Ignorant The Interpretation of Ignorance Man is Averse To What He is Ignorant of Imprisonment Those Who May Be Imprisoned Jailing the Warrantor until the Return of the Warranted The One Imprisoned for Life Imprisonment after Punishment and Acknowledgment of the Truth The Rights of the Prisoner Infallibility Infallibility Factors that Bring About Sinlessness The Infallibility of the Imam Infatuation The Reprehensibility of Infatuation The Reward for One Who Despite His Infatuation Restrains Himself Infatuation with Allah Inner Knowledge The Importance of Inner Knowledge Impediments to Inner Knowledge The Inner Knowledge of the Self Inner Knowledge of Allah The Virtue of Attaining Inner Knowledge of Allah The Fruits of Inner Knowledge of Allah The Description of the One who Knows Allah [or the Gnostic] The Lowest Degree of Inner Knowledge Attaining Inner Knowledge of Allah Through Allah Himself Prohibition of Pondering About Allah’s Essence The Intellects’ Incapacity to Fathom His Essence The Extent to Which One is Allowed to Describe Allah [Faith and Inner Knowledge of] The Divine Unity of Allah (tawhid) The Proof of Allah’s Divine Unity The Sights Cannot Apprehend Him but The Hearts Behold Him Eternal and Everlasting Living (Omnipresent) All-Knowing (Omniscient) Just The Creator All-Powerful (Omnipotent) The Speaker The One Who Wills The Manifest and the Hidden The Master The All-Hearing and The All-Seeing The Subtle and The All-Aware The All-Strong and The Almighty The All-Wise The All-Embracing He is Everywhere Attributes of His Essence and Attributes of His Action Comprehensive Attributes Innovation (Al-Bid’a) Innovation The Innovators The Meaning Of Innovation Rejecting Innovators The Innovator And Worship Invalidity Of The Worship Of An Innovator A Scholar’s Duties When Faced With The Appearance of Innovations Insight Insight Insulting Insulting the Believer Prohibition of Insulting The Punishment of One Who Insults the Prophets and the Vicegerents Permissible Insult The Intellect The Intellect The Role of the Intellect in Chastisement and Reward The Authoritativeness of the Intellect The Explanation of Intellect The Attributes of a Man of Intellect That Which Increases the Intellect What is regarded as Intellect That Which Weakens the Intellect Evidence of Weak Intellect The Fruit of the Intellect The Intellect’s Adversary Intercession Intercession in the Life of this World Intercession in the Hereafter Those Who Will Be Deprived of Intercession People’s Need for Intercession From the First to the Last The Intercessors Mediation The People Most Deserving of Intercession A Believer’s Right to Intercession Depends on the Extent of His Deeds Intimacy Intimacy Intimacy With Allah Intoxication Every Intoxicant is Prohibited Types of Intoxication Invoking Blessings on the Prophet Invoking Blessings on the Prophet (S) The Method of Invoking Blessings on the Prophet (S) Islam Islam Who is a Muslim? Fundamentals of Islam The Meaning of Islam Jealousy Jealousy Every Prosperous Person is Envied Jealousy and Faith The Signs of the Jealous Person Jihad Striving To Obey Allah The Most Diligent of People Jurisprudence Learnedness in Religion Who is the Scholar (faqih)? The Power of the Jurist over Satan The Death of a Jurist Justice The Importance of Justice Qualities of a Just Person Advice to Be Just and Fair with One’s Enemy and When Struck with Anger The Most Just of People Knowledge The Virtue of Knowledge The Superiority of Knowledge to Acts of Worship The Death of a Scholar Looking at the Face of a Scholar is an Act of Worship Enjoinment of Seeking Knowledge The Seeker of Knowledge Teaching The Virtue of the Teacher Gaining Knowledge for Allah and for Other than Allah Choosing a Teacher The Rights of the Student to be Observed by the Teacher The Rights of the Teacher to be observed by the Student Honouring the Scholar Duties Incumbent on the Student The Virtue of the Scholars The Fruit of Knowledge The Duties Incumbent upon a Knowledgeable Man Enjoinment of Acting upon One’s Knowledge The Severity of the Chastisement of the Knowledgeable Man The Scholars of Evil The True Meaning of Knowledge The Reprehensibility of Knowledge That is of No Use The Various Types of Knowledge Mystic Knowledge The Most Knowledgeable of People Exclusive Confinement of True Knowledge to the Household of the Prophet (ahl al-bayt) Laughter Laughing and Smiling The Censure of Laughing Too Much The Lawful (Halal) The Lawful The Difficulty in Seeking the Lawful The Property of the Believer is Unlawful (Haram) to Use Except with his Consent Leadership (Imama) Divinely Appointed Leadership The Superiority of Imama over Prophethood The Essential Need for an Authority The Authority is a Known Imam The Authority May be Fearful [of His Life] and Hence, Undistinguishable Were It Not For The Imam, The Earth Would Have Perished The Summoning of Every Nation With Their Imam Knowing the Imam Conditions of Imama and Qualities of the Imam That Which is Mandatory on Just Leaders The Reciprocal Duties and Rights Between the Imam and the Community Your Imams Are Your Representatives One Who Accepts The Leadership Of An Unrightful Leader Leaders to the Fire The Claimants of Imama For Themselves No Obedience Is Due To One Who Disobeys Allah Obligation of Revolting Against Tyrant Leaders Circumstances Where Desisting [From Revolting Against Tyrant Leaders] Is Allowed Electing An Imam The Tradition Of The Two Weighty Things (al-thaqalayn) The Obligation Of Clinging On To The Household of the Prophet The Reason For The Oppression Against The Household (a.s.) The Philosophy Of Leadership In The Viewpoint Of The Household (a.s.) Were It Not For Fear Of Dissention The Twelve Imams The Knowledge Of The Imam Legal Punishments Everything Has a Bound Averting the Punishments Upholding the Penal Laws No Intercession, Bail or Oath in a Legal Punishment Prohibition of Postponement of Legal Punishments Prohibition of Transgressing the Bounds The Role of Implementing the Penal Law in Atonement for the Sin Prohibition of Insulting the One Being Punished Leniency The Virtue of Leniency Moderation in Worship The Benefits of Leniency Lesser Jihad Jihad The One Who Wages Jihad Aiding Those Who Wage Jihad and Censure of Those Who Harm Them The Command To Wage Jihad With One’s Hands, Tongue, and Heart Abandoning Jihad Branches of Jihad Keeping Posts The Merit of Standing Guard Life Life Water and Life What is Better than Life The Real Life Lifespan Lifespan Making the Most of One’s Life He Whose Life Will Be a Proof Against Him That Which Leads to an Increase in Lifespan The Believer and Asking for a Long Life The Wisdom Behind Man’s Ignorance of the Span of His Life Lifestyle The Most Wholesome Lifestyle Factors Which Spoil One’s Lifestyle Listening The Virtue of Attentive Ears Those Whose Ears Have Been Sealed Effective Listening The Obligation Incumbent On the Hearing Loss The Losers To Become a Loser in the World and the Hereafter The Greatest Losers Love Love is Kinship That Which Brings About Love Those Who Must Not Be Endeared The Blindness of Love [from Perceiving the Truth] The Sign of Love The Believers’ Intense Love for Allah That which Brings About the Love of Allah Those Whom Allah Loves The People Loved Most by Allah The Corollaries of the Love of Allah The Status of Man’s Position with Allah The Sign of Man’s Love for Allah The Highest Position The Incongruity of the Love of Allah Combined with the Love of the World Enjoining the Love of Allah To Love for the Sake of Allah The Love of the Prophet (S) and His Household (a.s.) The Conditions for Loving the Household Ordeals to Secure Love Man is with Whom He Loves Madness Types of Madness One Who is Truly Mad Making Excuses Caution against Doing Something That One Would Later Have to Excuse Oneself For Enjoinment of Accepting the Excuse of One Who Excuses Himself Man The Dignity of Man The Reason For Man’s Creation Man’s Weakness Measuring Man’s Value Management Management Management of One's Self The Marketplace Condemnation of the Marketplace Imam Ali (a.s.)'s Exhortation to Market Traders Marriage Enjoinment of Marriage Unmarried People The Reward for Getting Fellow Muslims Married Enjoinment of Urgency in Marriage The Importance of Faith When Selecting a Spouse The Censure of Demanding an Excessive Dowry26 The Importance of Careful Spouse Selection The Rights of the Husband The Rights of the Wife Serving One's Husband Serving One's Wife Mistreating One's Spouse Tolerating Bad Character The Virtuous Wife The Evil Wife Obeying One's Wife in Acts of Disobedience to Allah Things to Be Considered When Spending on One's Family The Etiquette of Accepting Wedding Invitations Recommendation to Announce One's Marriage Martydom in the Way of Allah The Virtue of Martyrdom The Reward Of Seeking Martyrdom Honorary Martyrdom The Reward of One Who is Wounded in the Way of Allah Merit Merits The Best of Merits The Most Virtuous of People Miserliness Miserliness The Miser The Real Miser The Most Miserly Of People The Sign of Miserliness Modesty Modesty Modesty and Faith Reprehensible Modesty [Shame] The Consequences of Lack of Modesty Having Modesty with Allah The Peak of Modesty The Moral Lesson Taking Warning from Moral Lessons Things that Must be Contemplated Upon and Drawn Lessons From The Benefits of Taking Lesson The Mosque The Mosque is the House of Allah Maintaining the Mosques Walking to the Mosques Sitting in the Mosque Neighbouring the Mosque and Praying Therein Etiquettes of the Mosque Music Music The Effects Engendered by Music The Muslim Community The Status of the Muslim Community The Best of the Muslim Community Nails Clipping One’s Nails Enjoinment on Women of Leaving Their Nails (Long) The Need The Need Granting Needs The One Who Refrains from Granting the Need of His Brother Undertaking the Granting of Needs The Etiquette of Seeking a Need Negligence Caution against Negligence That Which Prevents Negligence The Distinguishing Characteristics of a Negligent Person The Effects of Negligence The Praise of Feigning Negligence (or Ignorance) The Neighbour Neighbourliness Annoying One’s Neighbour The Night Prayer The Virtue of the Night Prayer That Which Causes One to be Deprived of the Opportunity to Perform the Night Prayer The Recompense of One Who Intends to Perform the Night Prayer, but Stays Asleep Oath-Taking Prohibition against Taking Oath By Allah Glory Be to Him Warning against False Oaths How to Commit a Tyrant to Oath Obedience Obedience to Allah and Its Effects People Who are Entitled to be Obeyed People Who Must Not Be Obeyed Obligations Enjoinment of Fulfilling Religious Obligations That Which Allah Has Made Obligatory for People The Sum of All Obligations Obsence Language Caution against the Use of Obscene Language The Obscure Matter The Obscure Matter Obligation to Abandon Obscure Matters Old Age Old Age Enjoinment of Venerating the Old Open Handedness Generosity The Best Open-Handedness The Attributes of the Open-Handed Person Opinion That Which Renders an Opinion Valid The Consequences of Obstinately Holding One's Own Opinion Opportunity Seize the Opportunity The Ordeals Testing with Ordeals The Reason for Testing The Severity Of A Believer’s Ordeal The Role Of Evil Actions In The Onset Of Ordeals Whoever Is Not Tried With Ordeals Is Despised By Allah The Ordeal As A Bounty Ordeals And Admonition Sins Are Offset By Ordeals The Ordeal Is The Sign Of Allah’s Love, Glory Be To Him Ordeals Correspond To The Level Of One’s Faith The Levels That A Servant Attains As A Result Of Ordeals A Believer’s Trial Is For His Own Good The Most Severe Trial Of Servants Salvation At The Peak Of The Ordeal Supplication At The Time Of An Ordeal Supplication When Seeing A Man Being Tried With An Ordeal Paradise Paradise There is No Price for Your Souls Except for Paradise The Price for Paradise Requirements for Entering Paradise Paradise Surrounded by Trials Those for Whom Paradise is Guaranteed Those for Whom Paradise is Forbidden The Gates of Paradise The Ranks in Paradise The First to Enter Paradise The People of Paradise Inclusiveness of Paradise Pardon The Virtue of Pardon Enjoinment of Graceful Consonance Enjoinment of Pardon In Spite of One’s Power (to Punish) Pardon and Improvement That Which Must Not Be Pardoned Allah’s Pardon Partisanship Partisanship Praiseworthy Partisanship The Party The Party of Allah The Party of Satan The Path The Straight Path The True Meaning of the Straight Path Crossing the Path of the Hereafter (The Bridge over Hell) Patience The Virtue of Patience Patience and Great Things Perseverance and Victory The Reward of the Patient One The True Meaning of Patience The Patience Possessed by the Shi’ah of the (a.s.) The Effects of Anxiety Factors That Bring About Patience Peacemaking Peacemaking in War Imam al-Hasan (a.s.)’s Peace Treaty The Importance of Making Peace Between People The Permissibility of Lying for the sake of Reconciliation Perfume Perfume The Perfume of Women The Persians The Persians and Faith Pliability Pliability Not Compromising the Truth Polytheism Caution Against Polytheism Instruction of Polytheism The Absolute Minimum of Polytheism Hidden Polytheism Possessiveness The Praise of Possessiveness Censure of Being Jealous or Overpossessive Over One Another in the Wrong Situation Poverty The Censure of Poverty Praising Poverty Traditions Narrating about the Virtue of Poverty over Wealth The Interpretation of Poverty Praiseworthy and Disparaged Poverty Humiliating the Poor That Which Banishes Poverty That Which Brings Poverty Allah’s Excuse to the Poor The Adornment of Poverty Blessed are the Poor! The Prayer The Prayer The Effects of the Prayer The Virtue of One Who Prays Humbleness in Prayer Conditions and Impediments to the Acceptance of the Prayer He Whose Prayer is not Accepted The Role of Presence of the Heart in the Acceptance of the Prayer He Whose Prayer is Not Counted Prohibition of Laziness in Prayer Observance of the Prescribed Timings of the Prayer Enjoinment of Performing the Prayer at the Earliest Moment of the Time Prescribed for it Abandonment of the Prayer and Disbelief Caution Against Taking the Prayer Lightly The Congregational Prayer Duties that the Leader of the Congregation Must Observe Precaution Take Precaution with your Religion Predestination The Fallacy Of Predestination Neither Free Will Nor Predestination Allah Deserves All Credit For Good Deeds Proponents Of Predestination And Proponents Of Free Will The Preordained Term [Of Death] The Preordained Term [Of Death] Death Is A Fortified Castle Everything Has An End Suspended And Sealed Ends What Safeguards Against The Suspended End Pride Pride That Which Prevents Pride Censure of Pride That Which One Should be Proud Of Procrastination Prohibition of Procrastination The Profession The Profession The Prohibited (Haraam) Avoiding the Prohibited Consuming the Prohibited The Reward of One Who Has Access to the Prohibited But Abandons It Propagation (of Islam) The Importance of the Propagation of Islam What Is Incumbent Upon The Propagator Of Islam A. Knowledge of the Religion B.Reliance on the Words of the ahl al-bayt (a.s.) C. Sincerity D. Courage E. Honesty F. Kindness G. Good Advice H. Coherence of the Heart and the Tongue I. Preaching Through Action Prosperity The Prosperous One That Which Brings About Prosperity Things That Constitute Prosperity The Reality of Prosperity The Most Properous of People Prostration Prostration Prolonging One's Prostration The Effect of Prostration Prostrating on the Earth from Imam Husayn (a.s.)'s Grave Prudence Prudence Looking into the Consequences of Matters Firm Resolution and Determination The Interpretation of Prudence The Prudent The Most Prudent of People The Purgatory (al-barzakh) The Purgatory The Souls of the Believers in the Purgatory The Souls of Disbelievers in the Purgatory Purity Ritual Purification Purifying Agents 1. Water 2. The Sun 3. Earth 4. Fire Spiritual Purity Quenching Someone’s Thirst The Virtue of Quenching Someone's Thirst The Duty of One Who Quenches Others Ramadhan The Month of Ramadhan Allah's Forgiveness in the Month of Ramadhan Rancour Rancour That Which the Heart Cannot Harbour Rancour Towards The One Who Breaches His Trust (out of Rancour) Regret The Person with the Greatest Regret Religion Religion The Bane of Religion Encouragement to Preserve Religion Those Who Have No Religion The Simplicity of Religion The Only Religion Through Which Deeds are Accepted The Correct Way to Understanding Religion Protecting the Religion By Means of the World Supplication for Affirming the Heart towards Religion Characteristics of the Preservers of Allah’s Religion The Strengthening of Religion through a Disgraceful People Remedy To Treat Oneself There is a Cure for Every Ailment Beware of Hastening towards Resorting to Medicine Diet Control is the Fountainhead of Remedies The Greatest Miscellaneous Remembrance The Virtue of the Remembrance of Allah Enjoinment of Frequent Remembrance [of Allah] Enjoinment of Engaging in Continuous Remembrance The Remembrance of Allah is Good at All Times The Ones Who Remember Remember Me and I Will Remember You The Fruits of Remembrance Enjoinment of Remembrance of Allah in Certain Situations 1. When Facing an Enemy 2. When Entering the Market Place 3. During Distress, When Giving Judgment and When Distributing 4. When in Anger 5. When Alone and During Pleasures The Reality of the Remembrance [of Allah] That Which Brings About Continuous Remembrance [of Allah] Factors that Prevent the Remembrance [of Allah] The Effects of Disregarding the Remembrance [of Allah] Silent Remembrance Repetance Repentance The Status Of One Who Repents The Penitent Ones The Acceptance of Repentance When Is Repentance Accepted? Remorse Is Repentance Appropriate Confession [of One’s Sins] The Pillars Of Repentance Types Of Repentance Sincere Repentance Postponing Repentance What Is Easier Than Repentance Allah Conceals The Sin of The Penitent One Changing Sins Into Good Deeds Speculating On Allah’s Judgment Resentment Resentment The Believer’s Resentment is Short-lived Responsibility Responsibility Everyone is Commissioned with Responsibility The Answerability of the Hearing, the Sight and the Heart Ressurrection Resurrection The Drawing Near of the Hour Allah’s Exclusive Knowledge of the Hour The Day of Rising [from the Graves] The Description of the [Day of] Congregation The Godwary People on the Day of Resurrection The Guilty Ones on the Day of Resurrection The Book of Deeds The People of the Right Hand and of the Left Hand Retreat in the Mosque (i’tikaf) Retreat in the Mosque The Reward The Reward The Greatest Reward A Man Who Hears About The Reward For A Particular Action Riches Riches and Rebellion Riches and Godwariness The Real Meaning of Being Rich The Greatest of Riches The Key to Affluence The Rich People who’s Reward Will Be Doubled The Rich People’s Responsibility for the Poor People’s Hunger Righteousness Righteousness The Sign of a Righteous Person Complete Righteousness The Rights The Rights of Allah, Most High Giving Priority to the Rights of People The Greatest of Rights The Ruler (The Sultan) Associating with A Tyrannical Ruler Subservience to a Tyrannical Ruler The Virtue of a Just Ruler Greeting of Peace (Salam) The Greeting Between Muslims Initiating the Salutation Greeting Upon Entering One's House The Obligation of Returning a Greeting The Etiquette of Greeting Satan The Lesson to Be Learned From How Allah Dealt With Satan Seeking Refuge in Allah from Satan Satan's Enmity Towards Man Caution Against Satan's Temptations Satan Worshippers Satan's Allurements That Which Renders One Immune From Satan That Which Brings One Under Satan's Authority Satisfaction with Allah’s Divine Decree Satisfaction Things that Incite Satisfaction [With Allah's Decree] The Benefits of Satisfaction The Outcomes of Dissatisfaction Scorn Prohibition of Scorning People Caution against Scorning a Believer Scrutiny (of Man's Actions) Man's Actions are Scrutinized by Allah, the Angels and his Own Limbs Enjoinment of Self-Scrutiny Self-Scrutiny and Self-Accountability Secrecy Keeping a Secret Those That Must Not Be Entrusted With a Secret Seeking Forgiveness Seeking Forgiveness Seeking Forgiveness and Increase in Sustenance The Seeking of Forgiveness by Those Brought Near to Allah Caution against Seeking Forgiveness Alongside Persistent Sinning Self-Admiration Self-Admiration Enjoinment of Undervaluing the Good that One Does Treatment of Self-Admiration Self Restraint Enjoinment of Self-Restraint Enjoinment of Restraining the Stomach and the Private Parts The Root of Self-Restraint The Fruit of Self-Restraint Self-Sacrifice The Virtue of Self-Sacrifice The Eminence of Altruistic People Service Service Shaking Hands Shaking Hands Prohibition of Shaking a Woman’s Hand The Shi’ah The Virtue of the Shi’ah Qualities of the Shi’ah Those Who Are Not Considered To Be Shi’ah Types of Shi’ah Prohibition of Extremism for the Shi’ah Duties Incumbent on the Shi’ah in their Interactions with People The Station of the Shi’ah on the Day of Resurrection Showing Off The Censure of Showing Off Showing Off and Polytheism The Evil Outcome of Those Who Used to Show Off The Distinguishing Characteristics of a Show Off Exceptions Silence Silence The Fruits of Silence Blameworthy Silence Sincerity Sincerity The Difficulty of Sincerity The Sufficiency of Few Actions Coupled with Sincerity The Sincere One The Role of Sincerity in the Acceptance of Actions The Pure Religion The Reality of Sincerity What Brings About Sincerity The Effects of Sincerity Sinning Sinning Sinning Openly The Worst of Sins Unforgivable Sins Warning Against Committing Acts of Disobedience in Secret Taking One's Sins Lightly and Deeming Them Insignificant The Grave Sins Persistent Sinning Taking Pleasure in Sinning The Effects of Sins Sins, the Punishment of which is Hastened [in the Life of this World] The Remedy for Sinning Things that Expiate Sins 1. Punishment in this World 2. Illnesses 3. Sorrows 4. Good Deeds 5. Good Character 6. Bringing Solace to a Grief-stricken Person 7. The Angels' Seeking Forgiveness [on the sinner's behalf]: 8. Frequent Prostration 9. Hajj and Umrah 10. Sending Blessings on (S) and his Household 11. Death The Sitting and the Assembly The Most Honoured Seating What Must Be Observed In Sittings The Main Seating Spot Prohibited Sitting Places Assemblies Are About Trust Encouraging The Attendance Of Gatherings Where Allah is Remembered (dhikr) Encouraging The Remembrance Of Allah Upon Leaving An Assembly Sitting Company With Whom Must We Sit? The Right Of One’s Sitting Companion With Whom We Must Not Sit Slander Social Interaction The Etiquette of Social Interaction with People The Etiquette of Social Interaction With One’s Family What is Required When Interacting With People Sorrow Sorrow The Causes of Sorrow That Which Exterminates Sorrow The Reason for Sorrow and Joy for an Unknown Cause Praiseworthy Sorrow The Spirit The Spirit Spirits are Pre-Mobilized Groups The States of the Spirit The Spirit During Sleep Spying Prohibition of Following Up People’s Flaws Permissibility of Spying In War What Must Be Given The Benefit Of The Doubt Squandering State The State [i.e. Governance] of Noble People Staying Awake at Night Staying Awake at Night Enjoinment of Remaining Awake on Specific Nights Straying from the Straight Path Factors that Cause One to Stray (from the Straight Path) Those Who Lead Others Astray That Which Destroys the Pillars of Misguidance Submission Submission Suckling Suckling Types of Wet-Nurses That Should Not Be Employed Supplication Supplication Supplication Wards Off Inescapable Fate Supplication Repels Various Types of Calamity Priority with Supplication Enjoinment of Supplication for Every Need Supplication is the Key to Granting [of a Request] The Conditions for the Answering of Supplication 1. Inner Knowledge 2. Acting According to What Inner Knowledge Necessitates 3. Lawful Earning 4. Presence of the Heart and its Tenderness During Supplication Factors that Prevent the Answering of Supplication 1. Sins 2. Oppression 3. Opposing Wisdom The Etiquette of Supplication 1. The Basmala 2. Praise 3. Blessings upon (S) and his Family 4. Seeking Intercession of the Righteous 5. Acknowledgement of Sins 6. Imploring and Begging 7. Performing Two Units of Prayer 8. Not to Regard One’s Own Request as Too Much 9. To Have a High Ambition for What You Seek 10. To Supplicate for Everyone 11. Supplicating in Secrecy 12. Supplication in Congregation 13. Being Optimistic about the Answer 14. Selecting a Suitable Time 15. Insistence What the Supplicant Must Not Do 1. Supplication for the Impossible and the Impermissible 2. To Seek a Hasty 3. Do Not Instruct Allah about What is Good for You The One Whose Request is Granted without Asking The One Whose Supplication is Answered The Supplications that are Answered Supplications that are Not Answered The Reason for a Delayed The Reasons for a Lack of Supplication is not Without Effect Suspicion Suspicion Prohibition of Placing Oneself In Suspect Circumstances Sustenance The All-Sustainer Sustenance is Guaranteed Greed and Increase in Sustenance Enjoinment of Seeking One's Livelihood Through Decent Means The Seeker of his Sustenance Worrying About the Morrow's Sustenance Impatience With Regards to One's Sustenance Factors that Elicit the Descent of Sustenance and Increase it Things That Cut Off Sustenance Seeking Livelihood Through Lawful (Halal) Means The Best Livelihood is That Which Suffices You Swindling The Censure of Swindling Thanksgiving Enjoinment of Thanksgiving to Allah The Thankful One The Role of Thankfulness in the Increase (of Bounties) The Necessity of Thanksgiving for the Ability to Thank True Thanksgiving The Most Thankful of People Enjoinment of Thanking One Who Does Good To You One Who Has Not Thanked the Creature Has Not Thanked The Creator The Name Choosing Good Names Changing Ugly Names Thinking Thinking There Is No Worship like Thinking That Which Purifies Thought Prohibited Thinking Time Perception of Time To Trust Time To Resist Time The Trouble With Time The Prophetic Tradion (Hadith) The Tradition The Traditionist The Reward of Those Who Memorize Forty Traditions Understanding the Tradition Caution against Ascribing Lies to the Prophet (S) Prohibition of Falsifying That Tradition Whose Falsehood is not Known The Soundness of the Tradition and Its Agreement with the Qur’an The Soundness of a Tradition and Its Agreement with Man’s Nature The Soundness of a Tradition and Its Agreement with the Truth The Permissibility of Transmitting the Meaning of the Tradition What Must Be Observed when Transmitting Traditions The Difficulty of Bearing Some of the Traditions The All-Inclusiveness of the Book and the Prophetic Practice The Ambiguous Traditions Travel Travel Etiquette of Travelling The Prohibited Journey Travelling for Recreation Trees Planting Trees Cutting down Trees Trial and Temptation Trial and Temptation Kinds of Trial Those who are Cleared from Trials Miscellaneous Trustworthiness The Trust Universality of Trustworthiness An Untrustworthy Man Is A Man Without Faith The Effects of Trustworthiness People Who Must Not Be Trusted The Truth The Truth The Weight of the Truth The Necessity of Telling the Truth Even to One’s Own Detriment Speaking the Truth When Pleased or Angered Accepting the Truth The Criterion of Knowing the Truth The Truth Can Side Equally With or Against Someone Truthfulness Truthfulness The Truthful One The Most Truthful of Sayings Tyranny Condemnation Of Tyranny The Evil End Of The Tyrants The Unseen The Prophet Knows the Unseen through Allah’s Instruction The Imam and the Knowledge of the Unseen Usurpation Usurpation Usury Warning Against Usury The Wisdom Behind the Prohibition of Usury That Which Leads One to Become Involved in Usury The Usurer Who Justifies Himself Must be Fought Veneration Veneration of Rulers The Extent of Veneration Recommended The Verdict Those Who Give Verdicts of Their Own Opinion to People The Permissibility for a Scholar to Issue a Verdict Visiting Enjoinment of Visiting Each Other for the Pleasure of Allah The Benefits of Meeting Fellow Brothers The Etiquette of Visiting Vitality Vitality That Which Engenders Vitality Enjoinment of Seeking Vitality From Allah Supplications To Ask for Vitality Allah’s Protégés The Voice Prohibition of Raising One’s Voice War War Surprising the Enemy That Which Must be Observed Before the War The Troops at the Forefront of the Army Military Instructions Prohibition of Running Away from the Battle Employing Different Weapons in War The Naval Force The Fighting of Women Wasting Wasting Distinguishing Characteristics of a Wasteful Person Insignificant Yet Wasteful Acts That Which is Not Counted As Waste Weeping Weeping Due To Fear Of Allah Dryness Of The Eye Wisdom Wisdom Wisdom is the Lost Property of the Believer What the Wise Man Must Not Do The Interpretation of Wisdom The Fountainhead of Wisdom What Brings About Wisdom What Prevents Wisdom The Effects of Wisdom Protection of Wisdom The World The Life of this World The World is the Plantation for the Hereafter Explanation of the World Taking Only What is Necessary from the World The World With Regards to One Who Has Abandoned it Criticizing the World without Knowledge Characteristics of the Condemned Aspect of the World Love of the World is the Fountainhead of Every Mistake The Effects of Love of the World The World from the Viewpoint of Imam Ali (a.s.) Warning against the Deception of the World Verily the World Deceives the Ignorant Warning against Being Satisfied with the World The Danger of Preferring the World [over the Hereafter] The World is the Prison of the Believer The Danger of Making Worldly Affairs One’s Greatest Concern The Lowliness of the World in Allah’s Eyes The Difference between the World and the Hereafter Combining the World and the Hereafter The Parable of the World The Characteristics of the World The World is a Place Surrounded by Trials Worship Worship The Role of Understanding and Conviction in Worship Types of Worship Types of Worshippers The Best Form of Worship Eagerness and Vitality in Worship Wretchedness Characteristics of a Wretched Person The Wretched One Was Wretched As a Foetus in His Mother’s Womb That Which Brings About Wretchedness The Most Wretched of All People The Symptoms of Wretchedness Wrongdoing Caution against Wrongdoing Types of Wrongdoing The Most Atrocious Type of Wrong Granting Respite to the Wrongdoer The Wrongdoer’s Regret Caution Against Aiding the Wrongdoer Enjoinment of Aiding the Wronged Being Wary of the Plea [to Allah] of One Who Has Been Wronged Youth Youth Educating Youngsters Learning During One's Youth The Virtue of a Worshipping Young Man Mizan al-Hikmah (Scale of Wisdom) Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 This text is a collection of narrations from the honourable Prophet of Islam and the Twelve Imams (a.s.). This compendium of Shi'a hadith aims at traditions which are central to understanding the teachings of the Holy Qur’an and the ethical foundations of Islam. The ten-volume edition, for which the present volume serves as an abridged edition, was first published in March 1983 in Arabic. Get PDF Get EPUB Get MOBI Muhammad Muhammadi Reyshahri Mizan al-Hikmah (Scale of Wisdom) Muhammad Muhammadi Rayshari Dar al-Hadith, Qom, Iran Hardcover: 1432 pages ISBN-10: 1904063349 ISBN-13: 978-1904063346 Outline Mizan al-Hikmah (Scale of Wisdom) Introduction ‘Ashura ‘Ashura The Abased People The Virtue of Abased People The Return of Power to the Abased People Spiritual Weakness The Account The Account Enjoinment of Accounting for One’s Self The Fruit of Taking Account of Oneself The First Thing That Man Will Be Asked About That Which One is Not Accountable For That Which One Will be Held Accountable For That Which Will Make the Account Easier on the Day of Resurrection The Categories of People during the Account The Adverse Account Those Whose Account Will Be Easy Those Who Will Enter Paradise Without Accounting Those Who Will Enter the Fire Without Accounting Action Enjoinment of Action Action and Recompense Maintenance of Continuous Action The Best of Actions He Whose Deeds Do Not Benefit Him Deeds That One Must Be Cautious of Perfection of a Good Deed The Exposition of Deeds The Book of Deeds Embodiment of Deeds Adornment Adornment The Best Adornment Affliction The Reward for (Enduring an) Affliction The Worst of Afflictions To Say “Indeed we belong to Allah and to Him do we indeed return” when Struck with an Affliction The Etiquette of Dealing with an Affliction Factors that Ease Afflictions Gloating at Another’s Affliction Aggression Aggression The Agressor Fighting Against Muslim Agressors The Permission to Kill One Who Declares Enmity Towards the Im?m of the Muslims Agriculture The Divine Recommendation of Cultivation and Agriculture Alcohol Alcohol The Reason for the Prohibition of Alcohol The Consequence of Drinking Alcohol Interacting with an Alcohol Drinker How an Alcohol Drinker Will be Resurrected Enjoinment of Abandoning Alcohol even if it be for Other Than Allah The Prohibition of That Which Produces the Same Effects as Alcohol Allah The Meaning of Allah Allah's Pleasure Factors that Elicit Allah's Pleasure Signs of Allah's Pleasure Pleasing People at the Expense of Allah's Displeasure Alms-Tax (Zakat) The Obligatory Alms-Tax The Role of the Alms-Tax in the Increase of Wealth The One Who Refuses to Pay the Alms-Tax Those Who are Entitled to Receive the Alms-Tax There is a zakat for Everything Obligatory Alms-Tax Payable on ‘Ahd al-Fitr Amicableness Amicableness Amity Amity There is no Good in Someone who Does not Like others, Nor Is He Liked by Them Anger Anger is the Key to All Evils Enjoinment of Controlling One’s Anger Enjoinment of Suppressing One’s Anger The Remedy for Anger The Praiseworthiness of Anger for the Sake of Allah Animals The Rights of Animals The Answer [Allah’s] Antipathy Those Whom Allah Despises The People Allah Despises Most Acts Despised By Allah Malice Anxiety Warning Against Anxiety Asceticism The Virtue of Asceticism The Real Meaning of Asceticism Qualities of the One Who Practices Asceticism Factors that Elicit Asceticism The Benefits of Asceticism The Most Abstemious of People Assurance Assurance Adhering To Sureties Respecting Covenants of Protection Backbiting Prohibition of Backbiting Backbiting and Faith The Meaning of Backbiting People whom one is allowed to Backbite Listening to Backbiting The Reward for Deterring Backbiting The Penance for Backbiting Banes The Bathhouse The Bathhouse Beauty Allah is Beautiful and He Loves Beauty The Beautiful Image Honoring One’s Hair Inner Beauty Betrayal Betrayal Explanation of Betrayal and the Betrayer The Peak of Betrayal The Blessing The Blessed That Which Brings Blessing And That Which Removes It Bribery Bribery The Brother The Believers Are Brothers True Brothers Brothers’ Amity That Which Ensures the Endurance of Amity Brotherhood for the Sake of Allah Brotherhood For The Sake Of This World Informing One’s Brother Of One’s Love [For Him] One’s Amity for Another is a Proof of Reciprocity Cutting Off Relations with Brothers Maintaining Brotherhood Types of Brothers Warning Against Some Forms Of Brotherhood Preserving Old Brotherhood Real Brotherhood Choosing a Brother Tolerating the Lapse of a Brother The Best of Brothers The Worst of Brothers Testing Brothers Advising Brothers Honoring and Glorifying One’s Brothers Fulfilling Brothers’ Needs The Etiquette of Brotherhood Brushing One's Teeth Enjoinment of Brushing One's Teeth The Benefits of Brushing One's Teeth Etiquette of Brushing Teeth The Call For Prayer The Call for Prayer The Caller to Prayer Reciting the Call for Prayer in the Ears Captive Surrendering Oneself to Captivity is Not Allowed Treatment Of The Prisoner Of War Character Good Naturedness (Character) The Consequences of Good Naturedness Explanation of Good Naturedness High Moral Virtues Explanation of Noble Moral Traits The Best of the Noble Moral Traits The Fruits of Good Naturedness Ill Nature The Final Outcome of the Ill-natured Person The Best Virtues The Link Between Various Traits Charity The Virtue of Charity Allah’s Firsthand Receipt of Charities Charity and Repelling Adversities Charity is the Key to (Increased) Sustenance Every Kindly Act is Considered Charity The Best Form of Charity The Virtue of Giving Charity in Secret and Its Good Effects The Amount of Charity to be Given The Recipients of Charity The Etiquette of Giving Cheerfulness The Chief The Chief Requirements of Chiefdom Factors that Repel Chiefdom Childhood Childhood Clemency Clemency What Brings About Clemency The Fruits of Clemency The Interpretation of Clemency Clemency During Anger Comfort Factors that Bring About Comfort Seeking Comfort in This World Commerce Commerce Abandoning Commerce The Etiquette Of Trading The Prohibition Of Cheating [By Giving Less Than Due] In Trade Enjoinment Upon The Trader To Give Charity Leniency in Selling and Buying Bargaining Equality Between One Who Bargains And One Who Does Not The Profit of a Believer from Another The Iniquity of Merchants The Merchant’s Veracity The One Who Promotes His Commodity by Oaths The Trade Of The Hereafter Trading Does Not Divert the Believer Trade and Religion Common Courtesy Common Courtesy Enjoinment of Spreading Kindness to Both Good and Bad People Circulation of Good Acts From Hand to Hand Prohibition of Making Someone Feel Obliged for an Act of Courtesy Completion of a Good Act Prohibition of Holding Acts of Common Courtesy in Contempt The Mark of Acceptance of a Good Act The Reward for Good Acts Compassion The Enjoinment of Compassion Towards One Another Those That Are Most Deserving of Compassion Condemnation The Censure of Condemnation Condolence Condoling with one who is Grief-Stricken What to Say When Giving Condolences to a Grief-Stricken Person Congratulating the Grief-Stricken is More Appropriate than Condoling Him The Congregation Allah’s Hand is with the Congregation The Interpretation of Congregation Conjecture Conjecture and Reason Look for the Best in Any Situation Involving a Fellow Brother The Virtue in Entertaining Good Opinions Caution against Entertaining Low or Suspicious Opinions Avoiding That Which Incites Suspicious Thoughts Instances When Suspicion is Allowed Consanguinal Relations Reconciliation with One's Kin The Benefits of Maintaing Relations With One’s Kin Reconciling With One Who Cuts You Off Caution against Cutting Ties With One's Kin The Least One Can Do To Maintain Relations With One's Kin Corruption That Which Corrupts People in General 1. Sin 2. Dissention 3. Preventing the truth Who are the Corruptors? That Which Repels Corruption Counsel Enjoinment of Consultation People Whose Counsel Should Not Be Sought People Whose Counsel is Worthy of Being Sought Enjoinment of Guiding One Who Seeks Your Counsel The Role of the Counsel in Government Courage Courage That Which Engenders Courage The Most Courageous of People The Bane of Courage Covenant The Covenant Covetousness Covetousness The Covetous The Elements of Covetousness Cowardice Cowardice The Coward and Conquests Creation The Origin of Creation The First Thing that Allah – Glory be to Him – Created The Creation of the World The Greatness of What is Hidden from Us of Creation The Creator The Call of the Intellect to Repel Probable Harm Affirmation of the Existence of the Creator 1. Innate Knowledge 2- The Law of Causality 3- Signs in Existence 4. Cancellation of Firm Intentions and Failure of Ambitions Attributing Creation to Nature Debt Beware of Debt Permission to Incur Debt when in Need Encouragement to Write a Contract for Any Loan Prohibition of the Postponement of Repaying Debts Delusion The Censure of Delusion Deluding Oneself about Allah Being Deluded By This World Self-Delusion Differences Mankind Were a Single (Religious) Community Encouragement to Discard Differences Explanation of ‘The Separation of My Community is a Mercy’ Explanation of Congregation and Separation The Cause of Separation Disgrace Disgrace A Believer Must Never Disgrace Himself That Which Brings About Disgrace The Dispute Blameworthy Dispute Positive Debating Divine Mercy Allah's Divine Mercy Factors that Elicit Allah's Mercy Divorce The Censure of Divorce The Wisdom in Restricting the Divorce to Three Times Doubt Doubt Causes and Effects of Doubt Factors That Dispel Doubt The Aspects of Doubt Dreams Glad Tidings in Dreams Categories of Dreams Interpretation of Dreams Eloquence The Most Eloquent Speech Manipulation Through Speech Employment Employment Divine Disapproval of Offering Oneself for Hiring Employment Agents Wronging the Worker Informing [The Worker] of Wages and the Etiquette of Payment The End The End What Brings About a Good Final Outcome Enjoining Good And Prohibiting Wrong Enjoining Good and Prohibiting Wrong The Danger in Abandoning the Enjoinment of Good and the Prohibition of Wrong He Who Contents Himself with a People’s (Wrong) Action The Conditions to Be Observed by One Who Enjoins Good The Lowest Level of Prohibition of Wrong Enmity Enmity Prohibition of Showing Enmity towards Anyone The Seed of Enmity One Who Must Be Considered an Enemy Your Archenemy Caution Against Feeling Secure from One’s Enemy Reconciling With One’s Enemies How to Arm Oneself Against Enemies People’s Hostility Towards That Which They are Ignorant of Evil Evil The Yardstick of Good and Evil Worse than Evil The Keys to All Evils The Merging of Evils Man's Natural Tendency for Evil Expectation Expectation is a Mercy Expectations Never Cease Warning Against False Expectations Expectation and Death The Results of High Expectations Low Expectation Prohibition of Placing One’s Expectation in Other than Allah Experience Experience Experience And Reason Extremism (In Religion) Extremism (In Religion) Caution against Extremism (in Religion) Faith Faith Faith (Iman) and Islam The Reality of Faith Faith and Action Faith and Sins That Which Completes Faith Increase of Faith The Levels of Faith The Pillars of Faith The Strongest Bonds of Faith Steadfast and Temporary Faith That Which Consolidates Faith The Taste of Faith Inability to Taste the Sweetness of Faith That Which Removes One from Faith That Which Repels Faith The Great Status of the Believer The Believers Are As One Body Who is the Believer? The Firmness of the Believer Everything is in Awe of the Believer The Scarcity of the [True] Believer The Signs of the Believer The Best of Believers The Merit of One Who Believes in the Prophet without Having Seen Him Falsehood Warning followers of falsehood Discerning The Truth From Falsehood The Truth Disguised As Falsehood Falsehood Cannot be Ascertained as the Truth Fame Fame Praiseworthy Fame Blameworthy Fame The Censure of Clothing or Acts of Worship That Draw Attention Fasting Fasting Enjoinment of Fasting of One’s Own Accord The Etiquette of Fasting The Virtue of Fasting in Hot and Cold Weather The Fault Praise for One Whose Own Fault Preoccupies Him from Finding Fault in Others The Censure of Preoccupying Oneself with Others’ Faults Whilst Flattering Oneself Concealing Faults Conferring Someone’s Faults to Them Pursuit of People’s Faults Covering Up Faults He Who is Ignorant of Something Finds Fault With It Fear Fear The Believer Lies between Two Fears The Marks of the Fearful One Explanation of Fear The Fruits of Fear Caution Against Fearing Other than Allah How One Should React When in Fear of Something Awesome Miscellaneous Feeding Others The Virtue of Feeding a Hungry Person ‘Id, The Festival ‘Id, The Festival Nayruz The Adornment of the Festivals Food Little [Consumption of] Food Eating Excessively Among The Vices Of Gluttony Hunger Balance of Eating Table Manners Foolishness Foolishness The Characteristics of a Fool Taking the Fool as a Companion The Most Foolish of People Answering the Fool Fornication Prohibition of Fornication Consequences of Fornication Every Limb Has Its Own Share of Fornication Freedom Freedom All People Are Free The Distinguishing Trait of the Free Friday Friday Bathing On Friday The Friday Prayer The Friday Prayer Etiquette of Listening to the Sermon The Friend The Friend Resemblance of Souls People Whom One Should Befriend People Whom One Must Not Befriend That Which Corrupts a Friendship The Extent of One’s Friendship The Best of The Right of One’s Companion Generosity Generosity The Generous Person The Extent of Generosity Recommended Good Good Actions encompassed by Goodness How the Good of this World and the Hereafter is Obtained Explanation of Good When Allah Wants Good for a Servant If Allah Wants Good for a Community Enjoinment of Hastening to Undertake Good Deeds The Best of Matters Prohibition of Contempt for Little Good The Criteria for Good and Evil The Characteristics of Good People What is Better Than Goodness The Worth of One Who Guides Towards Good The Good Deed The Good Deed Multiple Requital of Good Deeds Good-Doing Good-Doing Good-Doing to the Wrongdoer The Meaning of Good-Doing He Who Does Good Benefits His Own Soul The Consequence of the Polytheists’ Acts of Good Good Manners Good Manners Good Manners and the Mind Disciplining The Self That Which Brings About Good Manners The Effects of Good Manner Explaining Good Manners The Best Manners Encouraging The Teaching Of Good Manners To Children How To Teach Good Manners What Must Be Observed When Teaching Good Manners Disciplining Oneself By The Discipline Of Allah Allah’s Discipline Good Repute Enjoinment of Keeping Up One’s Reputation The Reward for Refraining from Tarnishing Fellow Muslims’ Reputations The Reward for Defending the Reputation of a Fellow Muslim Government The Necessity Of Government The Rule Of Wicked People The Value of Government The Greater Jihad Forms of Jihad Enjoinment of Combatting the Self The Greater Jihad What is Necessary for Combatting the Self The Fruit of Struggle Greed Reprehension of Greed Praiseworthy Avidity The Habit The Habit Overcoming the Habit The Difficulty of Removing a Habit Habitual Practice Enjoinment of Adopting (Good) Habitual Practices The Recompense of One Who Establishes a Habitual Practice Prohibition of Discontinuing a Good Practice The Pilgrimage (Hajj) The [Obligatory] Pilgrimage (Hajj) The Philosophy of the Pilgrimage Pilgrimage Repels Poverty That Which Completes the Pilgrimage The Consequence of Abandoning the Obligatory Pilgrimage Deferring [Pilgrimage] to the House The Scarcity of [Sincere] Pilgrims The Etiquette of the Pilgrim The Respect due to Ihram The Reward of One Who Dies on the Way to Hajj The Presence of the Hidden Imam [al-Mahdi] during Hajj Happiness What To Be Happy About The Basics of Happiness One Who Fills Others' Hearts With Happiness Whoever Makes Another Believer Happy Makes Allah Happy The Reward for Alleviating a Fellow Believer of His Sorrows Harm Abstaining from Harm Harm Harming a Believer Haste Haste Rushing to Do Good Deeds Hell Hell The Chains and Shackles of Hell The Garments of the People of the Fire The Food of the People of the Fire The Drink of the People of the Fire The First to Enter the Fire The People with the Least Pain The People with the Greatest Pain The Valley of the Arrogant Those Who Will Be Made to Remain in Hell Permanently Those Who Will Leave the Fire The Reason for Perpetuity in Hell Hoarding Hoarding The Hoarder Honor The Explanation of Honor Factors that Elicit Honor That Which Causes Honor To Last Hope Enjoinment of True Hope Caution Against Placing One's Hopes in Anyone Other Than Allah Hospitality Hospitality People Who One Should Invite as Guests Enjoinment of Accepting the Invitation of a Fellow Believer Making a Special Effort for One’s Guest The Etiquette of Hospitality Housing Spacious Housing Caution Against Building More Housing Than Necessary for One's Living Selling a House Humility Humility The Characteristics of the Humble Idleness Idleness Ignorance Ignorance The Ignorant The Most Ignorant of People What is Sufficient to be Considered Ignorant The Interpretation of Ignorance Man is Averse To What He is Ignorant of Imprisonment Those Who May Be Imprisoned Jailing the Warrantor until the Return of the Warranted The One Imprisoned for Life Imprisonment after Punishment and Acknowledgment of the Truth The Rights of the Prisoner Infallibility Infallibility Factors that Bring About Sinlessness The Infallibility of the Imam Infatuation The Reprehensibility of Infatuation The Reward for One Who Despite His Infatuation Restrains Himself Infatuation with Allah Inner Knowledge The Importance of Inner Knowledge Impediments to Inner Knowledge The Inner Knowledge of the Self Inner Knowledge of Allah The Virtue of Attaining Inner Knowledge of Allah The Fruits of Inner Knowledge of Allah The Description of the One who Knows Allah [or the Gnostic] The Lowest Degree of Inner Knowledge Attaining Inner Knowledge of Allah Through Allah Himself Prohibition of Pondering About Allah’s Essence The Intellects’ Incapacity to Fathom His Essence The Extent to Which One is Allowed to Describe Allah [Faith and Inner Knowledge of] The Divine Unity of Allah (tawhid) The Proof of Allah’s Divine Unity The Sights Cannot Apprehend Him but The Hearts Behold Him Eternal and Everlasting Living (Omnipresent) All-Knowing (Omniscient) Just The Creator All-Powerful (Omnipotent) The Speaker The One Who Wills The Manifest and the Hidden The Master The All-Hearing and The All-Seeing The Subtle and The All-Aware The All-Strong and The Almighty The All-Wise The All-Embracing He is Everywhere Attributes of His Essence and Attributes of His Action Comprehensive Attributes Innovation (Al-Bid’a) Innovation The Innovators The Meaning Of Innovation Rejecting Innovators The Innovator And Worship Invalidity Of The Worship Of An Innovator A Scholar’s Duties When Faced With The Appearance of Innovations Insight Insight Insulting Insulting the Believer Prohibition of Insulting The Punishment of One Who Insults the Prophets and the Vicegerents Permissible Insult The Intellect The Intellect The Role of the Intellect in Chastisement and Reward The Authoritativeness of the Intellect The Explanation of Intellect The Attributes of a Man of Intellect That Which Increases the Intellect What is regarded as Intellect That Which Weakens the Intellect Evidence of Weak Intellect The Fruit of the Intellect The Intellect’s Adversary Intercession Intercession in the Life of this World Intercession in the Hereafter Those Who Will Be Deprived of Intercession People’s Need for Intercession From the First to the Last The Intercessors Mediation The People Most Deserving of Intercession A Believer’s Right to Intercession Depends on the Extent of His Deeds Intimacy Intimacy Intimacy With Allah Intoxication Every Intoxicant is Prohibited Types of Intoxication Invoking Blessings on the Prophet Invoking Blessings on the Prophet (S) The Method of Invoking Blessings on the Prophet (S) Islam Islam Who is a Muslim? Fundamentals of Islam The Meaning of Islam Jealousy Jealousy Every Prosperous Person is Envied Jealousy and Faith The Signs of the Jealous Person Jihad Striving To Obey Allah The Most Diligent of People Jurisprudence Learnedness in Religion Who is the Scholar (faqih)? The Power of the Jurist over Satan The Death of a Jurist Justice The Importance of Justice Qualities of a Just Person Advice to Be Just and Fair with One’s Enemy and When Struck with Anger The Most Just of People Knowledge The Virtue of Knowledge The Superiority of Knowledge to Acts of Worship The Death of a Scholar Looking at the Face of a Scholar is an Act of Worship Enjoinment of Seeking Knowledge The Seeker of Knowledge Teaching The Virtue of the Teacher Gaining Knowledge for Allah and for Other than Allah Choosing a Teacher The Rights of the Student to be Observed by the Teacher The Rights of the Teacher to be observed by the Student Honouring the Scholar Duties Incumbent on the Student The Virtue of the Scholars The Fruit of Knowledge The Duties Incumbent upon a Knowledgeable Man Enjoinment of Acting upon One’s Knowledge The Severity of the Chastisement of the Knowledgeable Man The Scholars of Evil The True Meaning of Knowledge The Reprehensibility of Knowledge That is of No Use The Various Types of Knowledge Mystic Knowledge The Most Knowledgeable of People Exclusive Confinement of True Knowledge to the Household of the Prophet (ahl al-bayt) Laughter Laughing and Smiling The Censure of Laughing Too Much The Lawful (Halal) The Lawful The Difficulty in Seeking the Lawful The Property of the Believer is Unlawful (Haram) to Use Except with his Consent Leadership (Imama) Divinely Appointed Leadership The Superiority of Imama over Prophethood The Essential Need for an Authority The Authority is a Known Imam The Authority May be Fearful [of His Life] and Hence, Undistinguishable Were It Not For The Imam, The Earth Would Have Perished The Summoning of Every Nation With Their Imam Knowing the Imam Conditions of Imama and Qualities of the Imam That Which is Mandatory on Just Leaders The Reciprocal Duties and Rights Between the Imam and the Community Your Imams Are Your Representatives One Who Accepts The Leadership Of An Unrightful Leader Leaders to the Fire The Claimants of Imama For Themselves No Obedience Is Due To One Who Disobeys Allah Obligation of Revolting Against Tyrant Leaders Circumstances Where Desisting [From Revolting Against Tyrant Leaders] Is Allowed Electing An Imam The Tradition Of The Two Weighty Things (al-thaqalayn) The Obligation Of Clinging On To The Household of the Prophet The Reason For The Oppression Against The Household (a.s.) The Philosophy Of Leadership In The Viewpoint Of The Household (a.s.) Were It Not For Fear Of Dissention The Twelve Imams The Knowledge Of The Imam Legal Punishments Everything Has a Bound Averting the Punishments Upholding the Penal Laws No Intercession, Bail or Oath in a Legal Punishment Prohibition of Postponement of Legal Punishments Prohibition of Transgressing the Bounds The Role of Implementing the Penal Law in Atonement for the Sin Prohibition of Insulting the One Being Punished Leniency The Virtue of Leniency Moderation in Worship The Benefits of Leniency Lesser Jihad Jihad The One Who Wages Jihad Aiding Those Who Wage Jihad and Censure of Those Who Harm Them The Command To Wage Jihad With One’s Hands, Tongue, and Heart Abandoning Jihad Branches of Jihad Keeping Posts The Merit of Standing Guard Life Life Water and Life What is Better than Life The Real Life Lifespan Lifespan Making the Most of One’s Life He Whose Life Will Be a Proof Against Him That Which Leads to an Increase in Lifespan The Believer and Asking for a Long Life The Wisdom Behind Man’s Ignorance of the Span of His Life Lifestyle The Most Wholesome Lifestyle Factors Which Spoil One’s Lifestyle Listening The Virtue of Attentive Ears Those Whose Ears Have Been Sealed Effective Listening The Obligation Incumbent On the Hearing Loss The Losers To Become a Loser in the World and the Hereafter The Greatest Losers Love Love is Kinship That Which Brings About Love Those Who Must Not Be Endeared The Blindness of Love [from Perceiving the Truth] The Sign of Love The Believers’ Intense Love for Allah That which Brings About the Love of Allah Those Whom Allah Loves The People Loved Most by Allah The Corollaries of the Love of Allah The Status of Man’s Position with Allah The Sign of Man’s Love for Allah The Highest Position The Incongruity of the Love of Allah Combined with the Love of the World Enjoining the Love of Allah To Love for the Sake of Allah The Love of the Prophet (S) and His Household (a.s.) The Conditions for Loving the Household Ordeals to Secure Love Man is with Whom He Loves Madness Types of Madness One Who is Truly Mad Making Excuses Caution against Doing Something That One Would Later Have to Excuse Oneself For Enjoinment of Accepting the Excuse of One Who Excuses Himself Man The Dignity of Man The Reason For Man’s Creation Man’s Weakness Measuring Man’s Value Management Management Management of One's Self The Marketplace Condemnation of the Marketplace Imam Ali (a.s.)'s Exhortation to Market Traders Marriage Enjoinment of Marriage Unmarried People The Reward for Getting Fellow Muslims Married Enjoinment of Urgency in Marriage The Importance of Faith When Selecting a Spouse The Censure of Demanding an Excessive Dowry26 The Importance of Careful Spouse Selection The Rights of the Husband The Rights of the Wife Serving One's Husband Serving One's Wife Mistreating One's Spouse Tolerating Bad Character The Virtuous Wife The Evil Wife Obeying One's Wife in Acts of Disobedience to Allah Things to Be Considered When Spending on One's Family The Etiquette of Accepting Wedding Invitations Recommendation to Announce One's Marriage Martydom in the Way of Allah The Virtue of Martyrdom The Reward Of Seeking Martyrdom Honorary Martyrdom The Reward of One Who is Wounded in the Way of Allah Merit Merits The Best of Merits The Most Virtuous of People Miserliness Miserliness The Miser The Real Miser The Most Miserly Of People The Sign of Miserliness Modesty Modesty Modesty and Faith Reprehensible Modesty [Shame] The Consequences of Lack of Modesty Having Modesty with Allah The Peak of Modesty The Moral Lesson Taking Warning from Moral Lessons Things that Must be Contemplated Upon and Drawn Lessons From The Benefits of Taking Lesson The Mosque The Mosque is the House of Allah Maintaining the Mosques Walking to the Mosques Sitting in the Mosque Neighbouring the Mosque and Praying Therein Etiquettes of the Mosque Music Music The Effects Engendered by Music The Muslim Community The Status of the Muslim Community The Best of the Muslim Community Nails Clipping One’s Nails Enjoinment on Women of Leaving Their Nails (Long) The Need The Need Granting Needs The One Who Refrains from Granting the Need of His Brother Undertaking the Granting of Needs The Etiquette of Seeking a Need Negligence Caution against Negligence That Which Prevents Negligence The Distinguishing Characteristics of a Negligent Person The Effects of Negligence The Praise of Feigning Negligence (or Ignorance) The Neighbour Neighbourliness Annoying One’s Neighbour The Night Prayer The Virtue of the Night Prayer That Which Causes One to be Deprived of the Opportunity to Perform the Night Prayer The Recompense of One Who Intends to Perform the Night Prayer, but Stays Asleep Oath-Taking Prohibition against Taking Oath By Allah Glory Be to Him Warning against False Oaths How to Commit a Tyrant to Oath Obedience Obedience to Allah and Its Effects People Who are Entitled to be Obeyed People Who Must Not Be Obeyed Obligations Enjoinment of Fulfilling Religious Obligations That Which Allah Has Made Obligatory for People The Sum of All Obligations Obsence Language Caution against the Use of Obscene Language The Obscure Matter The Obscure Matter Obligation to Abandon Obscure Matters Old Age Old Age Enjoinment of Venerating the Old Open Handedness Generosity The Best Open-Handedness The Attributes of the Open-Handed Person Opinion That Which Renders an Opinion Valid The Consequences of Obstinately Holding One's Own Opinion Opportunity Seize the Opportunity The Ordeals Testing with Ordeals The Reason for Testing The Severity Of A Believer’s Ordeal The Role Of Evil Actions In The Onset Of Ordeals Whoever Is Not Tried With Ordeals Is Despised By Allah The Ordeal As A Bounty Ordeals And Admonition Sins Are Offset By Ordeals The Ordeal Is The Sign Of Allah’s Love, Glory Be To Him Ordeals Correspond To The Level Of One’s Faith The Levels That A Servant Attains As A Result Of Ordeals A Believer’s Trial Is For His Own Good The Most Severe Trial Of Servants Salvation At The Peak Of The Ordeal Supplication At The Time Of An Ordeal Supplication When Seeing A Man Being Tried With An Ordeal Paradise Paradise There is No Price for Your Souls Except for Paradise The Price for Paradise Requirements for Entering Paradise Paradise Surrounded by Trials Those for Whom Paradise is Guaranteed Those for Whom Paradise is Forbidden The Gates of Paradise The Ranks in Paradise The First to Enter Paradise The People of Paradise Inclusiveness of Paradise Pardon The Virtue of