Life Under The Grace of Ethics

Ayatullah Naser Makarem Shirazi

Table of Contents

Preface
What we are looking for in this book?
Translator's Preface
1-Ethic and training
Is it possible to alter individuals' morality and mentality through training?
Ill humor is a sort of disease
Purification of carnal soul or the greater warfare
Prosperity and happiness
What is prosperity?
Does prosperity have only a spiritual aspect?
Individual and social morality
Big mistake
Way of treatment of moral deviations
Hygiene of morality
2-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
3-First step in purification of ethic after familiarity with alphabet ofthis science
Tongue is interpreter of heart and key of personality
Thirty great sins, which originate from tongue
Silence and reticence
4-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
5-Slander
Dangerous weapon of cowards
The most important motives for slander
Dangers of slander
Social and individual vices of slander
Ill - effects of slander in individual view
Limits and types of slander
Exceptions of slander
Who is notorious for debauchery and why slandering about him is permitted?
6-Suspicion and mistrust
Immunity from mistrust is the requisite of a safe community
Sources of suspicion and pessimism
Social losses of mistrust
Individual losses of suspicion
Ways of countering with suspicion
Methods of treating suspicion
7-A healthy society under the grace of ethics
Without ethic, the plan of a healthy society is defeated
Privileges of man's social life
Source of formation of society
Social value
Islam and social concerns
Social seclusion
Islam and monkery
Historical origin
Mental origin
Monkery among Christians
8-Social units
The most critical issue in the social life is that how we can form a great and powerful unit from the small units?
The most powerful social relation
Islam and global unique society
How to create a mental unity
Spirit of unity in Islamic instructions
The forgotten principles without which the world will not experience peace and tranquility
9-Way of influencing on the hearts
What we shall do for our advices to be influential on the heart of others?
Shall we be fact seeking or aggressive?
Factors effective in influencing on the hearts
10-Relation of ethics and education
What is education?
Quran and education
Personality and character
Relation of education and personality
Factors comprising personality
Footnotes