Evacuation or Self-refinement (Takhliyeh)
- Self Building
- Translator’s Foreword
- Biography of Ayatullah Ibrahim Amini
- Preface
- Self-Purification, the Main Goal of Divine Messengers
- The Heart in Quran
- 1. Reasoning and Comprehension
- 2. Un-comprehending and Reasoning
- 3. Faith
- 4. Blasphemy and Disbelief
- 5. Dissension
- 6. To Receive Guidance
- 7. Negligence
- 8. Certainty and Tranquility
- 9. Anxiety and Conflict
- 10. Blessing and Kindness
- 11. Hot-temper and Cruelty
- Soundness and Sickness of Heart
- Heart in Traditions
- Hard-heartedness
- Heart's Physicians
- Refinement and Perfection of Self
- Evacuation or Self-refinement (Takhliyeh)
- Self-refinement
- Self-Struggle
- The Stages of Self-refinement
- Things which are Helpful for Self-refinement
- Egotism - the Root of all Evils
- Piety, the Most Important Factor for Purification
- The Characteristics of Pious (Sermon of Hammam)
- Supervision - the Most Important Factor for Self-restraint
- Repentance and Self-cleansing
- Nourishment and Perfection of Self (Tahliyeh)
- The Means of Perfection and God's Nearness
- First Means -God's Remembrance (Dikhr)
- The Effects and Indications of Invocation (Dhikr)
- The Means of Attainment
- Instructions
- Obstacles of the Path
- Second Means, Nourishment of Moral Virtues
- Third Means, the Righteous Deeds
- Some Righteous Deeds
- Fourth Means, Struggle (Jihad) and Martyrdom (Shahadat)
- Fifth Means, Benevolence and Service to Humanity
- Sixth Means, Supplications (Dua)
- Seventh Means, Fast (Sawm)
- Appendix 1: A Mystical Poem (Ghazal al-Irfani) of Imam Khomeini
- Appendix 2: Supplication of the Holy Month of Sha'ban (Munajat al-Shabaniyyah)
- Appendix 3: A Prayer
