This text which is authored by Ayatullah al-Uzma Shaykh Nasir Makarim Shirazi, sheds light on how life would look under the grace of ethics. The topics of morality and ethics, its hygiene, principles and how social life is affect is thoroughly discussed.
Life Under The Grace Of Ethics
Author: Ayatullah Makarim Shirazi
Translator:Monir Shafiei
Published in: 2003
ISBN: 964-6632-97-1
Printed by Imam Ali Foundation - Qum Iran
- Life Under The Grace Of Ethics
- What we are looking for in this book?
- Translator's Preface
- Ethic and Training
- Quadruple principles of ethics in view 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 incentives and consequences
- First step in purification of ethic after familiarity with alphabet of this 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 of personality
- Value and importance of truthfulness
- Miraculous results of truthfulness
- Lie, source of all sins
- Lie is not compatible with belief
- Lie makes man improvident
- The liar does not trust even in himself
- Source of lie
- Way of treating lie
- Lie in exceptional cases
- What is equivocation?
- A new interpretation about equivocation
- Slander, Dangerous weapon of cowards
- The most important motives for slander
- Dangers of slander
- 1- Slander in view of Holy Qur’an
- 2- Slander is not compatible with belief
- 3- Slander is considered as spreading obscenity
- 4- The corruption of slander is more severe than adultery
- 5- Slander hinders acceptance of deeds and prayers
- 6- Slander is not compatible with Islamic brotherhood
- 7- Slander destroys good deeds
- 8- Slander devaluates worships and services
- 9- Slander excludes man from God's protection and includes him in Satan's protection
- 10- A part of ill effects of slander remains even after repentance.
- Social and individual vices of slander
- Limits and types of slander
- Exceptions of slander
- Who is notorious for debauchery, and why slandering about him is permitted?
- Suspicion and mistrust
- A Healthy Society under the Grace of Ethics
- Social units
- Way of influencing on the hearts
- Factors effective in influencing on the hearts
- Relation of ethics and education
