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

2) Stages of Piety
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Moralists consider three stages for Taqwa:

a. To safeguard *self* from the eternal chastisement and from abiding in
hell due to correcting one’s beliefs. When a human being tries to
rectify his beliefs, to avoid atheism, to improve his belief in
monotheism, prophethood, and the Day of Judgment, to adopt a right path
in Imamate, to perform obligatory duties, and to leave the forbidden
acts, he will save himself from chastisement and fire.

b. To avoid committing sins verbally and practically; such a meaning of
Taqwa is best known to the people of religion.

c. To safeguard the heart from what keeps it busy away from truth, from
the forbidden, blameworthy, and permissible acts. This is the excellent
stage of Taqwa.


