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

50) Signs Of The Pious
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There is a sign for everything for people to know it. If you want to
know whether a liquid is verjuice, vinegar, water, rose-water,
Egyptian–willow water or sallow-water, you can know about it buy
smelling or tasting it. If you want to know the name of a metal, you
have to assay it with touchstone to see whether it is cooper, gold,
brass, platinum, or silver. If you want to know whether fallen body is
alive or dead, a mirror or stethoscope will help you.

If you want to know whether a nation is alive or dead, you can know
about it through their active presence in the different scenes, and
through their intelligence. If you want to know whether a person is a
clergyman or businessman, a government employee or a worker, a patient
or physician, pious or wrongdoer, a man of this world or a man of the
hereafter, there are signs with them which denote their jobs.

Now, if we want to know men of piety, we should get to know them through
the features mentioned in the Holy Quran and traditions. When we know
them, we can set them as models to be followed, make friend and
associate with them.


