زندگى تحت توفيقات اصول اخلاق - مكارم شيرازى، ناصر - الصفحة ٢٢ - Individual and social morality

قُلْ مَنْ حَرَّمَ زِينَةَ اللَّهِ الَّتِي اخْرَجَ لِعِبادِهِ وَ الطَّيِّباتِ مِنَ الرِّزْقِ قُلْ هِيَ لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا فِي الْحَيوةِ الدُّنْيا ..

Say: Who has forbidden the ornament of God, which Hebrought forth for His servants, and the good things of His providings? Say: These shall be exclusively for those who believed in this present life.. [١]

And we read in aphorisms of Imam Ali A. S.:

. «لِلْمُؤْمِنِ ثَلاثُ ساعاتٍ: فَساعَةٌ يُناجِي فِيها رَبَّهُ وَ ساعَةٌ يَرُمُّ مَعاشَهُ وَ ساعَةٌ يُخَلِّي بَيْنَ نَفْسِهِ وَ بَيْنَ لَذَّتِها فِيما يَحِلُّ وَ يَجْمُلُ» ..

The believer's time has three periods: the period when he isin communion with Allah, the period when he manages for his livelihood, and the period when he is free to enjoy what is lawful and pleasant.. [٢]

And this phrase is added to some traditions:.

«وَ ذلِكَ عَوْنٌ عَلى‌ سائِرِ السّاعاتِ» ..

and the last part is tonic and refreshing for the other parts."

Individual and social morality

Some believe that all moral principles return to the man'sspecial social relations with others so that if there was no society, and any man lived completely apart from the others, and any individual lived unaware of existence of others," ethics" was basically meaningless because envy and jealousy, modesty and pride, good opinion, justice and injustice, chastity, generosity and stinginess, and such like are all strictly meaningful within the society and contact of man with others. Thus man minus society will be accompanied with man minus ethic.

[١]The Hei ghtssura (٧) ,verse ٢٣

[٢]Nahjol Balaghe ,aphorisms ,no .٠٩٣