This book focuses on the principles of religion which are relevant to the thought and soul of human beings, reason and intellect follow it, and deeds and movement of human beings spring forth from its fountainhead accordingly.
What Everyone Should Know about Islam
Ibrahim Amini
آنچه همه بايد درباره اسلام بدانند
- What Everyone Should Know about Islam
- Dedication
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Theology
- 1.1. Acquiring of Knowledge
- 1.2. Theology
- 1.3. God’s Characteristics
- 1.4. Characteristics of Essence and Deed
- 1.5. Attributes that cannot apply to God
- 1.5.1. Some Attributes that cannot apply to God
- A. God is not compounded
- B. God is not a Body
- C. God is Unseen
- D. God is not an Illiterate and Ignorant
- E. God is not Helpless and Powerless
- F. God’s Essence is not a Place of Incidents to Occur
- G. God does not have a Partner
- H. God does not have a Place
- I. God is not needy
- J. God is not a Tyrant and Oppressor
- 1.5.1. Some Attributes that cannot apply to God
- 1.6. Monotheism
- 1.7. Justice
- Chapter 2: Prophethood
- Chapter 3: Imamate (Leadership with Divine Authority)
- 3.1. Imamate (leadership with Divine Authority)
- 3.2. Characteristics of an Imam
- 3.3. Appointment of a Successor and Number of Imams (a.s.)
- 3.4. First Imam (a.s.)
- 3.5. Second Imam (a.s.)
- 3.6. Third Imam (a.s.)
- 3.7. Fourth Imam (a.s.)
- 3.8. Fifth Imam (a.s.)
- 3.9. Sixth Imam (a.s.)
- 3.10. Seventh Imam (a.s.)
- 3.11. Eighth Imam (a.s.)
- 3.12. Ninth Imam (a.s.)
- 3.13. Tenth Imam (a.s.)
- 3.14. Eleventh Imam (a.s.)
- 3.15. Twelfth Imam (a.j.)
- 3.16. Shi’a
- 3.17. Our Beliefs about Other Muslims
- Chapter 4: Resurrection or Hereafter
- Chapter 5: Moral Ethics
- Chapter 6: Branches of Religion
- 6.1. Branches of Religion
- 6.2. Prayer
- 6.3. Ablution
- 6.4. Adhan
- 6.5. Call for Establishing of Prayer
- 6.6. Instructions for Recitation of Prayer
- 6.7. Essentials of Prayer
- 6.8. Prayer of a Traveler
- 6.9. Prayer of Signs
- 6.10. Fasting
- 6.11. Charity
- 6.12. One-Fifth Savings of Yearly Income
- 6.13. Hajj
- 6.14. Encouraging of Good and Forbidding of Evil
- 6.15. Some of the Illegitimate Transactions
- 6.16. Unclean Things
- 6.17. Some of the Purifiers
- 6.18. Compulsory Washing or Bath
- 6.19. Instructions for Ablution with Earth or Sand
- 6.20. Some of the Illegitimate Deeds
- 6.21. Some of the Compulsions
- 6.22. Imitation or Following
- Bibliography
- Glossary