زندگى تحت توفيقات اصول اخلاق - مكارم شيرازى، ناصر - الصفحة ٥٠ - Vigilance and self -examination or studying incentivesand consequences

habits and salvation from vices, and certainly no one cantraverse mental and moral perfection stages without these two.

Vigilance is the same full attention to the manner of deedsand actions before performing them, and self- examination isconcerned with reviewing the consequences and effects of anaction after performing it.

Sometimes, a little ignorance and self- unawareness in each ofthese two stages involves man in an unlucky destiny, relieving ofwhich is not easily possible.

The situation of man's spirit in this part is just like his body. A man has to observe different hygienic points for preserving hisphysical health, and pay attention to the affairs, which maycause different diseases before eating any food and living in anyenvironment. Once he has to be vaccinated for prevention fromdiseases. Somewhen he has to observe special diets in view offood and such like, and occasionally he should go under precisemedical examinations by proficient physicians, and afteraffliction to disease and its treatment, he should strengthen hishealth for compensating convalescence and removing its badeffects.

For challenging with moral deviations and acquiring spiritualhealth too observing all of these affairs is necessary. In general, the man who is interested in acquisition of good moral habitsshould consider following aspects:

١- He should always watch his condition and know that, before him, God is always observing and watching him. HolyQuran says:

أَفَمَنْ هُوَ قائِمٌ عَلى‌ كُلِّ نَفْسٍ بِما كَسَبَتْ‌ ..

( What, He who stands over every soul for what he has