Dedication
Dedicated to the late:
Charles Henry Morgan
Mohammad Mehdi Peiravi
- Mishkat ul-Anwar Fi Ghurar il-Akhbar, The Lamp Niche for the Best Traditions
- About The Author
- Translators’ Foreword
- A Martyr in Allah’s Way
- Dedication
- About The Author
- Preface
- Section 1: On Faith, Islam And Related Issues
- Chapter 1: On Unity of God
- Chapter 2: On Sincerity
- Chapter 3: On Certitude
- Chapter 4: On Reliance and Trust in God
- Chapter 5: On Perseverance
- Chapter 6: On Thanksgiving
- Chapter 7: On Contentment
- Chapter 8: On Having a Good Opinion About God
- Chapter 9: On Thinking
- Chapter 10: On Faith and Islam
- Chapter 11: On Concealing Faith
- Chapter 12: On Piety
- Chapter 13: On Enjoining the Right and Forbidding the Wrong
- Chapter 14: On Being Trustworthy
- Chapter 15: On Remembrance
- Section 2: On Shiites, Their Signs, and Manners
- Chapter 1: On Shiite Characteristics
- Chapter 2: On Signs of the Shiites
- Chapter 3: On Shiite Manners
- Chapter 4: On Shiite's Position Near God and their Rights
- Chapter 5: On the Status of Shiites
- Chapter 6: On the Nobility of Believers Near God
- Chapter 7: On the Mutual Rights of Believers
- Chapter 8: On Not Bothering Believers or Seeking Out their Flaws
- Chapter 9: On Religiousness
- Section 3: On Good deeds and Noble Traits
- Chapter 1: On Repentance
- Chapter 2: On Worshipping God
- Chapter 3: On Abstinence
- Chapter 4: On Fear and Hope
- Chapter 5: On Love and Eagerness
- Chapter 6: On Affluence and Poverty
- Chapter 7: On Contentment
- Chapter 8: On Science, Scientists, Teaching, Learning and Using Science
- Chapter 9: On Encouraging to Write and to Correspond
- Chapter 10: On Good Words and Deeds
- Chapter 11: On Numbered Characters
- Chapter 12: On Practicing the Traditions and the Quran
- Chapter 13: On Avoiding the Forbidden and the Like
- Chapter 14: On the Rights of the Parents and Treating them Kindly
- Chapter 15: On Visiting the Relations of Kin
- Chapter 16: On Orphans
- Chapter 17: On Respecting the Old
- Chapter 18: On Youth
- Chapter 19: On Honesty, Forgetting People's Faults and Forbidding Gossipping
- Chapter 20: On Watching Your Tongue
- Chapter 21: On Peace-Making
- Chapter 22: On Treating Others with Patience and Proper Habits
- Chapter 23: On Moderation and Warm Welcome
- Chapter 24: On Good Deeds
- Chapter 25: On Charity
- Chapter 26: On Not Depending on the People
- Section 4: On How to Associate with Other People
- Chapter 1: On Choosing Friends
- Chapter 2: On Etiquette
- Chapter 3: On Seeking Permission to Enter
- Chapter 4: On Greeting and Hugging
- Chapter 5: On Shaking Hands and Kissing
- Chapter 6: On Sitting
- Chapter 7: On Sneezing
- Chapter 8: On Associating with Each Other
- Chapter 9: On Becoming Friends
- Chapter 10: On the Rights of the Neighbors
- Chapter 11: On Patience, and Controlling One's Anger
- Chapter 12: On Exchanging Gifts
- Section 5: On Noble Characteristics
- Section 6: On One's Faults, the Heart and the Intellect
- Section 7: On Hardships, Promised Rewards, and Remembering Death
- Chapter 1: On Persevering in the Face of Calamities
- Chapter 2: On the Nobility of Illness and Hiding it48
- Chapter 3: On Grief
- Chapter 4: On Peace of Mind
- Chapter 5: On the Sufferings of Believers
- Chapter 6: On Calamities and Trials
- Chapter 7: On Calamities and Hardships
- Chapter 8: On the Necessity of a Believer's Submission to Destiny
- Chapter 9: On Death
- Section 8: On Undesirable Characteristics
- Chapter 1: On Anger
- Chapter 2: On Jealousy
- Chapter 3: On Hypocrisy
- Chapter 4: On Conceit
- Chapter 5: On Oppression and the Forbidden
- Chapter 6: On Relations with Kings and Obeying the Creatures of God
- Chapter 7: On Prohibited Characteristics
- Chapter 8: On Fame
- Chapter 9: On Humiliating Believers
- Chapter 10: On Keeping Secrets
- Section 9: On Some Advice
- Section 10: On Miscellaneous Topics
- Chapter 1: On Praying for One's Believing Brothers
- Chapter 2: On Lot-Casting
- Chapter 3: On Safeguarding and Refining the Soul
- Chapter 4: On Friendship, Hatred and Success
- Chapter 5: On Remembering Blessings and Their Means
- Chapter 6: On God Gradually Abandoning Man and not Being Grateful to God
- Chapter 7: On Being Bossy
- Chapter 8: On Obeying or Disobeying God
- Chapter 9: On Preparing a Will
- The Main References
