Author’s Note

Translator’s Note

1) What Is Piety (Taqwa)

2) Stages of Piety

3) The Worth Of Piety

4) The Effects Of Piety

5) Kinds Of Piety

6) Piety And Faith

7) Piety And Monotheism

8) Piety And Prophethood

9) Piety And the Day Of Judgment

10) Piety And Imamate

11) Piety And Knowledge (Science)

12) Piety In Practice

14) Piety And Islamic Rules

15) Piety in Worshipping

16) Piety And Prayer

17) Piety And Fasting

18) Piety And the Hajj

19) Piety And Jihad

21) Piety And Society (Social Piety)

22) Parents’ Rights

23) Children’s Rights

24) Relatives’ Rights

25)Neighbors’ Rights

26) Fellow Muslims’ Rights

27) How To Socialize

28) Codes Of Society

29) Backbiting

30) Tale-Bearing

31) Accusation and Slander

32) Suspicion

33) Telling Lies

34) The Difference of Opinions and Creeds

35) Choosing of Companions

36) Oppression (Injustice)

37) Justice And Fairness

38) Hypocrisy

39) Self-Conceit

40) Piety And Speech

41) Piety and Breaking of Promise

42) What Is Promise?

43) Piety against Sins

44) Piety And Family Rights

45) Forming a Family

46) Wife and Husband’s Duties

47) Inward Piety

48) Piety and Blessings

49) Piety And Health

50) Signs Of The Pious

51) Features Of The Pious

52) Kinds Of Fear

53) The Effects Of Fear

54) The Hammam Sermon; The Pious in the Viewpoint of Imam Ali (AS)

55) Friends of Allah (Saints)

56) Night Prayer

57) Reciting the Holy Quran

58) Prostration

59) Remembrance of God (Zikr)

Examples of Taqwa (Piety) in the Holy Quran and the Sunnah of Ahl
al-Bayt (as)


Taqwa (Piety) Advice of Ahl al-Bayt

21) Piety And Society (Social Piety)
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One of the other cases in which one must observe piety (Taqwa) is the
association with people, which is considered as social piety. If piety
is observed in the social relations, the world would turn into paradise,
for every man’s suffering, backwardness, misfortune, and wretchedness
are the result of not observing of piety.

If piety rules over a society, if the society is based on piety, and if
social relations are piety-based and if a society has the dress of
piety, that society will become firm and independent. But what is social
piety the observance of which is incumbent on people?

We have already said that piety, in relation to every topic, fits that
particular subject, though they have the same meaning, and that is the
refraining from disobeying the orders of God and the Prophet (a.s.).

In associating with other people, there are certain rules we should
observe. In Islam, in addition to the divine rights which are specially
related to God Himself and every Muslim has to observe like the
obedience to God, there are other rights towards others such as the
divine rights on man like the divine right on man’s tongue, ears, eyes,
hands, feet, and private parts, or the divine rights on man’s acts like
prayer, fasting, charity, or the divine rights towards the prophets,
imams, and other people. There is the treatise on rights attributed to
Imam Sajjad (AS) in which all the rights have been elaborated.


