زندگى تحت توفيقات اصول اخلاق

What we are looking for in this book

Translator's Preface

Ethic and training

Is it possible to alter individuals ' morality and mentalit ythrough training

Ill humor is a sort of disease

Purification of carnal soul or the greater warfare

Prosperity and happiness

What is prosperity

Does prosperity have only a spiritual aspect

Individual and social morality

Big mistake

Way of treatment of moral deviations

Hygiene of morality

Quadruple principles of ethics inview of the ancients

Studying and criticism

Scale for evaluation of good and bad morality

Effect of seclusion and dissociability in morality

Arguments of advocators of seclusion and association

Disadvantages of seclusion and dissociation

Exceptional cases in which seclusion is permitted

Vigilance and self -examination or studying incentivesand consequences

First step in purification of ethicafter familiarity with alphabet ofthis science

Tongue is interpreter of heart and key of personality

Thirty great sins ,which originate from tongue

Silence and reticence

Honesty ,the most manifest sign ofpersonality

Value and importance of truthfulness

Miraculous results of truthfulness

Lie ,source of all sins

Lie is not compatible with belief

Source of lie

Lie makes man improvident

The liar does not trust even in himself

Way of Treating lie

Lie in exceptional cases

What is equivocation

A new interpretation about equivocation

Dangerous weapon of cowards

The most important motives for slander

Dangers of slander

Social and individual vices of slander

Ill -effects of slander in individual view

Limits and types of slander

Exceptions of slander

Who is notorious for debauchery and why slanderingabout him is permitted

Suspicion and mistrust

Immunity from mistrust is the requisite of a safe community

Sources of suspicion and pessimism

Social losses of mistrust

Individual losses of suspicion

Ways of countering with suspicion

Methods of treating suspicion

A healthy society under the grace ofethics

Without ethic ,the plan of a healthy society is defeated

Privileges of man's social life

Social value

Islam and social concerns

Source of formation of society

Social seclusion

Islam and monkery

Historical origin

Mental origin

Social units

Monkery among Christians

The most powerful social relation

Islam and global unique society

How to create a mental unity

Spirit of unity in Islamic instructions

The forgotten principles without which the world will notexperience peace and tranquility

stinu llams eht morf tinu lufrewop dna taerg a mrof nacew woh taht si efil laicos eht ni eussi lacitirc tsom ehT

Geographical area

Way of influencing on the hearts

What we shall do for our advices to be influential on theheart of others

Shall we be fact seeking or aggressive

Factors effective in influencing on the hearts

Relation of ethics and education

What is education

Quran and education

Personality and character

Relation of education and personality

Factors comprising personality

زندگى تحت توفيقات اصول اخلاق - مكارم شيرازى، ناصر - الصفحة ٦٨ - Lie is not compatible with belief

The Prophet S. A. was asked: Is it possible for a believer to becoward? He answered: yes. It was asked: Is it possible for him to be stingy? He answered: yes. It was asked: Is it possible for him to be liar? He answered: no.. [١]

«قالَ امِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عليه السلام: لا يَجِدُ عَبْدٌ طَعْمَ الْايمانِ حَتّى‌ يَتْرُكَ الْكَذِبَ هَزْلَهُ وَجِدَّهُ» ..

Imam Ali A. S. said: A man does not taste the taste of belief, unless he refuses lie, either seriously or for humor.. [٢]

«عنه عليه السلام: جانِبُوا الْكَذِبَ فَانَّهُ مُجانِبُ الْايمانِ» ..

Avoid lie, which is not in concord with belief.. [٣]

And it is concluded from these narrations that believersavoid lie, and belief and lie do never accompany each other.

This point refers to the fact that the liars do not easily accep tinvitation of the prophets based on self- comparison. Since theythemselves lie in little affairs of life, they can not believe thatprophets to be really truthful in such big affairs. They may beamong the believers, but if we explore in depth of their hearts, we will find that it is not free from doubt and suspicion. Ofcourse, this is true for those whose life is overshadowed by lie, and as interpreted in the tradition are liars.

The contrary is also true. That is to say the truthful peopleare often credulous, because they themselves are truthful andhonest, and accept whatever they hear based on their superiornature, and so called they are" ear" unless they are notified.

Liars have a special pessimism and suspicion on everybodyand everything. They assume everything false, untrue, or at least

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