Merit
Merit الفَضلُ
Merits
الفَضائِلُ
1ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): الفَضيلَةُ بحُسنِ الكَمالِ ومَكارِمِ الأفعالِ، لا بكَثرَةِ المالِ وجَلالَةِ الأعمالِ.
1– Imam Ali (a.s.) said, ‘Merits come through good perfection [of character] and noble actions, and not through excess money and eminent feats.’[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 1925]
2ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): فَضيلَةُ السادَةِ حُسنُ العِبادَةِ.
2– Imam Ali (a.s.) said, ‘The merit of chiefs lies in the goodness of their worship.’[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 6559]
3ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): فالمُتَّقُونَ فيها هُم أهلُ الفَضائلِ: مَنطِقُهُمُ الصَّوابُ، ومَلبَسُهُمُ الاقتِصادُ.
3– Imam Ali (a.s.) said, ‘So the pious among them are the people of merits; their speech is truth and their dress [attitude] is moderate.’[Nahjul Balaghah, Sermon 193]
4ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): لَقَد أخَذَ بجَوامِعِ الفَضلِ مَن رَفَعَ نفسَهُ عن سُوءِ المُجازاةِ.
4– Imam Ali (a.s.) said, ‘He who lifts his head [i.e. holds himself] from misjudging has acquired the sum of all the merits.’[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 5139]
5ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): مَن أحسَنَ إلى مَن أساءَ إلَيهِ فقد أخَذَ بجَوامِعِ الفَضلِ .
5– Imam Ali (a.s.) said, ‘He who is good to one who does bad to him has attained all merits.’[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 8905]
6ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): كُن عَفُوّاً في قُدرَتِكَ، جَواداً في عُسرَتِكَ، مُؤْثِراً مَعَ فاقَتِكَ ؛ يَكمُلْ لكَ الفَضلُ.
6– Imam Ali (a.s.) said, ‘Be forgiving with your power, generous in spite of your own hardship and effective in spite of your own neediness, and your virtue will be perfected.’[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 7179]
7ـ الإمامُ زينُ العابدينَ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): إذا كانَ يَومُ القِيامَةِ جَمَعَ اللّهُ تبارَكَ وتعالَى الأوَّلينَ والآخِرينَ في صَعيدٍ واحِدٍ، ثُمّ يُنادِي مُنادٍ: أينَ أهلُ الفَضلِ؟ قالَ: فَيَقومُ عُنُقٌ مِن الناسِ، فَتَلقّاهُم المَلائكةُ فيَقولونَ: وما كانَ فَضلُكُم ؟ فيَقولونَ: كنّا نَصِلُ مَن قَطَعَنا، ونُعطِي مَن حَرَمَنا، ونَعفُو عَمَّن ظَلَمَنا، فيقالُ لَهُم: صَدَقتُم، ادخُلُوا الجَنَّةَ .
7– Imam Zayn al-Abidin (a.s.) said, ‘When the Day of Judgment comes Allah, Blessed and most High, will gather the first and the last of creation in one place. A caller will cry out, ‘Where are the people of merit?’ The Imam then said, ‘Then a handful of people will rise, and the angels will receive them asking them, ‘What were your merits?’ They will say, ‘We used to visit those who cut us off, give to those who deprived us, and forgive those who oppressed us.’ It will then be said to them, ‘You have spoken the truth. Enter Paradise.’[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 107, no. 4]
8ـ الإمامُ الجوادُ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): الفَضائلُ أربَعةُ أجناسٍ: أحَدُها: الحِكمَةُ، وقِوامُها في الفِكرَةِ، والثاني: العِفَّةُ، وقِوامُها في الشَّهوَةِ، والثالثُ: القُوَّةُ، وقِوامُها في الغَضَبِ، والرابِعُ: العَدلُ، وقِوامُهُ في اعتِدالِ قُوَى النفسِ.
8– Imam al-Jawad (a.s.) said, ‘There are four types of merits: the first is wisdom, and its basis is thinking. The second is chastity, and its basis is desire. The third is power, and its basis is anger. The fourth is justice, and its basis is moderation in the faculties of the self.’[Kashf al-Ghamma, v. 3, p. 138]
The Best of Merits
أفضَلُ الفَضائِلِ
9ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): الإنصافُ أفضَلُ الفَضائلِ.
9– Imam Ali (a.s.) said, ‘Fairness is the best of merits.’[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 805]
10ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): حِفظُ اللِّسانِ وبَذلُ الإحسانِ مِن أفضَلِ فَضائلِ الإنسانِ.
10– Imam Ali (a.s.) said, ‘Safeguarding the tongue and spreading goodness [to others] are among the best merits of the human.’[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 4899]
11ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): لا فَضيلَةَ أجَلُّ مِن الإحسانِ.
11– Imam Ali (a.s.) said, ‘There is not merit greater than goodness [to others].’[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 10625]
12ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): رَأسُ الفَضائلِ مِلكُ الغَضَبِ، وإماتَةُ الشَّهوَةِ .
12– Imam Ali (a.s.) said, ‘The fountainhead of merits is the overpowering of anger, and the eradication of desire.’[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 5237]
13ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): غايَةُ الفَضائلِ العِلمُ .
13– Imam Ali (a.s.) said, ‘The peak of merits is knowledge.’[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 6379]
The Most Virtuous of People
أفضَلُ النّاسِ
14ـ رسولُ اللهِِ (صَلَّيَ اللهُ عَلَيهِ وَ آلِهِ): أفضَلُكُم مَنزِلَةً عندَ اللّهِ تعالى أطوَلُكُم جُوعاً وتَفَكُّراً، وأبغَضُكُم إلَى اللّهِ تعالى كُلُّ نَؤومٍ وأكُولٍ وشَروبٍ .
14– The Prophet (S) said, ‘Those among you who have the best status with Allah, most High, are those who prolong their hunger and contemplation. Those of you who are most hated by Allah, most High, are those who sleep, eat and drink excessively.’[Tanbih al-Khawatir, v. 1, p. 100]
15ـ رسولُ اللهِ (صَلَّيَ اللهُ عَلَيهِ وَ آلِهِ): أيُّها الناسُ، إنّ أفضَلَ الناسِ مَن تَواضَعَ عَن رِفعَةٍ، وزَهِدَ عن غُنيَةٍ، وأنصَفَ عن قُوَّةٍ، وحَلُمَ عن قُدرَةٍ، ألاَ وإنَّ أفضَلَ الناسِ عَبدٌ أخَذَ مِن الدنيا الكَفافَ، وصاحَبَ فيها العَفافَ، وتَزَوَّدَ للرَّحيلِ، وتَأهَّبَ للمَسيرِ.
15– The Prophet (S) said, ‘O people! The most virtuous of people is he who is humble from loftiness, abstains from [accumulating] wealth, is fair in spite of his strength and forgiving in spite of his power. Verily, the most virtuous of people is a servant who takes what suffices him from this world, takes self-restraint as his companion therein, prepares his provisions to leave [this world], and is ready for the journey [to the Hereafter].’[A’alam al-Din, p. 337, no. 15]
16ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): أفضَلُ عِبادِ اللّهِ عِندَ اللّهِ إمامٌ عادِلٌ، هُدِيَ وهَدَى، فَأقامَ سُنَّةً مَعلومَةً، وأماتَ بِدعَةً مَجهولَةً.
16– Imam Ali (a.s.) said, ‘The most virtuous of Allah's servants according to Allah is a just leader, who is guided and guides [others], and who has established the known tradition, and abolished the unknown innovations.’[Nahjul Balaghah, Sermon 164]
17ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): إنّ أفضَلَ الناسِ عندَ اللّهِ مَن كانَ العَمَلُ بالحَقِّ أحَبَّ إلَيهِ ـ وإن نَقَصَهُ وكَرَثَهُ ـ مِن الباطِلِ وإن جَرَّ إلَيهِ فائدَةً وزادَهُ.
17– Imam Ali (a.s.) said, ‘The most virtuous of people according to Allah is he to whom action in accordance with what is right is most beloved - even if it damages and worries him – rather than what is false, even if it gives him benefit and increases him.’[Nahjul Balaghah, Sermon 12]
- Mizan al-Hikmah (Scale of Wisdom)
- Introduction
- ‘Ashura
- The Abased People
- 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
- Adornment
- Affliction
- Aggression
- Agriculture
- Alcohol
- Allah
- Allah's Pleasure
- Alms-Tax (Zakat)
- Amicableness
- Amity
- Anger
- Animals
- The Answer
- [Allah’s] Antipathy
- Anxiety
- Asceticism
- Assurance
- Backbiting
- Banes
- The Bathhouse
- Beauty
- Betrayal
- The Blessing
- 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
- The Call For Prayer
- Captive
- 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
- Childhood
- Clemency
- Comfort
- 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
- Condemnation
- Condolence
- The Congregation
- Conjecture
- Consanguinal Relations
- Corruption
- Counsel
- Courage
- Covenant
- Covetousness
- Cowardice
- Creation
- The Creator
- Debt
- Delusion
- Differences
- Disgrace
- The Dispute
- Divine Mercy
- Divorce
- Doubt
- Dreams
- Eloquence
- Employment
- The End
- Enjoining Good And Prohibiting Wrong
- Enmity
- Evil
- Expectation
- Experience
- 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
- Fame
- Fasting
- 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
- Feeding Others
- ‘Id, The Festival
- Food
- Foolishness
- Fornication
- Freedom
- Friday
- The Friday Prayer
- The Friend
- Generosity
- 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
- Good-Doing
- 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
- Government
- The Greater Jihad
- Greed
- The Habit
- Habitual 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
- Harm
- Haste
- 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
- Honor
- Hope
- Hospitality
- Housing
- Humility
- Idleness
- Ignorance
- Imprisonment
- Infallibility
- Infatuation
- Inner Knowledge
- 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)
- Insight
- Insulting
- 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
- Intoxication
- Invoking Blessings on the Prophet
- Islam
- Jealousy
- Jihad
- Jurisprudence
- Justice
- 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
- The Lawful (Halal)
- 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
- Lesser Jihad
- Life
- Lifespan
- Lifestyle
- Listening
- Loss
- 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
- Making Excuses
- Man
- Management
- The Marketplace
- 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
- Merit
- Miserliness
- Modesty
- The Moral Lesson
- The Mosque
- Music
- The Muslim Community
- Nails
- The Need
- Negligence
- The Neighbour
- The Night Prayer
- Oath-Taking
- Obedience
- Obligations
- Obsence Language
- The Obscure Matter
- Old Age
- Open Handedness
- Opinion
- 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
- Partisanship
- The Party
- The Path
- Patience
- Peacemaking
- Perfume
- The Persians
- Pliability
- Polytheism
- Possessiveness
- 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
- Predestination
- The Preordained Term [Of Death]
- Pride
- Procrastination
- The Profession
- The Prohibited (Haraam)
- Propagation (of Islam)
- Prosperity
- Prostration
- Prudence
- The Purgatory (al-barzakh)
- Purity
- Quenching Someone’s Thirst
- Ramadhan
- Rancour
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Responsibility
- 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)
- The Reward
- Riches
- Righteousness
- The Rights
- The Ruler (The Sultan)
- Greeting of Peace (Salam)
- Satan
- Satisfaction with Allah’s Divine Decree
- Scorn
- Scrutiny (of Man's Actions)
- Secrecy
- Seeking Forgiveness
- Self-Admiration
- Self Restraint
- Self-Sacrifice
- Service
- Shaking Hands
- The Shi’ah
- Showing Off
- Silence
- 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 Prophet Muhammad (S) and his Household
- 11. Death
- The Sitting and the Assembly
- Sitting Company
- Slander
- Social Interaction
- Sorrow
- The Spirit
- Spying
- Squandering
- State
- Staying Awake at Night
- Straying from the Straight Path
- Submission
- Suckling
- 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
- Factors that Prevent the Answering of Supplication
- The Etiquette of Supplication
- 1. The Basmala
- 2. Praise
- 3. Blessings upon Prophet Muhammad (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
- 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 Response
- The Reasons for a Lack of Response
- Supplication is not Without Effect
- Suspicion
- 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
- 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
- Thinking
- 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
- Trees
- Trial and Temptation
- Trustworthiness
- The Truth
- Truthfulness
- Tyranny
- The Unseen
- Usurpation
- Usury
- Veneration
- The Verdict
- Visiting
- Vitality
- The Voice
- War
- Wasting
- Weeping
- 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
- Wretchedness
- Wrongdoing
- Youth