Table of Contents

Preface

What we are looking for in this book?

Translator's Preface

1- Ethics 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

A Big mistake

Methods of treating moral deviations

Hygiene of morality

2- Principles of ethics

Critical examination of the old quadruple classification

Scale for evaluation of good and bad morality

Effect of seclusion and dissociability in morality

Arguments of advocates 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 ethics

Tongue is the interpreter of heart

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 ethics, the plan of a healthy society is defeated

Privileges of man's social life

Source of formation of society

Social values

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 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- Ways of influencing the hearts

What we should do for our advice to be influential on the heart of others?

Should we be fact seeking or aggressive?

Factors effective in influencing 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