Greater Struggle (Jihad al-Akbar .1

549 Pages·2015·3.65 MB·English

Self Building: An Islamic guide for spiritual migration towards God
:Writer
Ibrahim Amini
:Published in print
Ansariyan
:Digital Publisher
Ghaemiyeh center of computerized researches
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Contents
5 Contents
14 Self Building
14 BOOK ID
15 point
15 Translator’s Foreword
23 Biography of Ayatullah Ibrahim Amini
27 Preface
27 point
31 An Important Reminder
31 Self-Purification, the Main Goal of Divine Messengers
31 point
40 Self-awareness and Self-building .1
44 Human-soul and Animal-self .2
51 Human Virtues .3
62 Esoteric Life .4
72 ?What to Be .5
80 The Heart in Quran
80 point
80 Reasoning and Comprehension .1
80 Un-comprehending and Reasoning .2
80 Faith .3
81 Blasphemy and Disbelief .4
81 Dissension .5
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82 To Receive Guidance .6
82 Negligence .7
82 Certainty and Tranquility .8
83 Anxiety and Conflict .9
83 Blessing and Kindness .10
84 Hot-temper and Cruelty .11
86 Soundness and Sickness of Heart
94 Heart in Traditions
94 point
98 The Heart of an Unbeliever (1
99 The Heart of a Believer (2
100 The Heart of a Believer- Occasionally Contaminated (3
101 Hard-heartedness
106 Heart's Physicians
111 Refinement and Perfection of Self
113 (Evacuation or Self-refinement (Takhliyeh
113 Self-refinement
113 point
115 Negligence from the Disease .1
116 Diagnosis of Self-sickness .2
116 point
116 Strengthening of Reason .2.1
126 Thinking before Action .2.2
130 Being Pessimistic towards the Self .2.3
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132 Consulting Spiritual Physicians .2.4
133 Consulting a Wise Friend .2.5
135 Learning from Other's Faults .2.6
135 Learning from Criticism .2.7
137 Symptoms of Heart's Sickness .2.8
138 Decision for Treatment .3
142 Control and Domination of Self .4
147 Self-Struggle
147 point
152 (Greater Struggle (Jihad al-Akbar .1
152 point
153 A. First Reason
156 B. Second Reason
156 C. Third Reason
157 Struggle and Divine Assistance .2
161 Man, His own Physician .3
163 The Stages of Self-refinement
163 Prevention .1
168 Sudden Renunciation .2
175 Gradual Renunciation .3
178 Things which are Helpful for Self-refinement
178 Meditation .1
179 Reward and Punishment .2
183 Dignity of Human Essence and Strengthening Human Virtues .3
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187 Renunciation of Bad Company .4
190 Avoiding Potential Blunders .5
193 Egotism - the Root of all Evils
193 point
198 Worldliness, the Source of all Sins .1
201 ?What is World .2
207 World's Reality .3
212 The Next Worlders .4
217 The Worldly Beings .5
221 The Worldly and Next Worlders .6
223 Piety, the Most Important Factor for Purification
223 point
228 Piety, Objective Behind the Divine Commands .1
232 Definition of Piety .2
236 Piety and Seclusion .3
239 Piety and Insight .4
244 Piety and Victory over the Difficulties .5
247 Piety and Freedom .6
249 Piety and Treatment of Diseases .7
250 (The Characteristics of Pious (Sermon of Hammam
257 Supervision - the Most Important Factor for Self-restraint
257 point
257 Recordings of Deeds .1
258 Accounting on the Judgment Day .2
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264 Self-scrutiny Before the Judgment Day .3
270 ?How to Scrutinize .4
270 point
272 (Making Commitments (Mosharateh .4.1
275 (Supervision and Control (Moraqebat .4.2
278 Accounting of Deeds .4.3
287 Repentance and Self-cleansing
287 point
289 The Need for Repentance .1
292 Acceptance of Repentance .2
297 ?What is Repentance .3
300 Things which Require Repentance .4
300 point
300 Moral Sins .4.1
301 Practical Sins .4.2
302 (Nourishment and Perfection of Self (Tahliyeh
302 point
303 God's Nearness .1
306 Meanings of God's Nearness .2
306 point
306 Nearness Relative to Place .1
306 Nearness Relative to Time .2
306 Metaphorical Nearness .3
311 point
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320 (A) The Aim of Invocation (Dikhr
326 (B) The Degrees of Invocation (Dhikr
339 Faith, the Foundation of Spiritual Perfection
342 The Means of Perfection and God's Nearness
342 (First Means -God's Remembrance (Dikhr
342 (The Effects and Indications of Invocation (Dhikr
342 point
343 Commitment for God's Obedience .1
345 Humility .2
345 Excitement for Worshipping .3
347 Tranquility and Assurance .4
349 God's Attention towards the Servant .5
349 point
351 First Reason
351 Second Reason
351 God's Love towards the Servant .6
353 The Most Important Effects .7
354 The Means of Attainment
354 point
354 Meditation and Reasoning .1
356 Deliberations over the Qur’anic Verses .2
359 Worshipping .3
360 Invocations and Supplications .4
369 Instructions