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

5) Kinds Of Piety
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Some people may have the impression that piety means to avoid committing
sins only. Therefore in many cases, piety has come to mean fear of God
and abstinence from committing sins, whereas it means self-restraint and
safeguarding of oneself from opposing the orders of God. Hence, piety is
not solely restricted to self-restraint against sins, rather it has
other kinds too. Taqwa is sometimes related to ideology (monotheism,
prophethood, Imamate and the Day of Judgment) and at other times it is
not related to ideology. The latter includes piety in theory and in
practice. When piety is related to practice, it is sometimes
religion-based and at other times not based on religion. When it is not
based on religion, piety is sometimes related to individual and at other
times to society. In society too, it is sometimes moral and at other
times non-moral. Each of these will be discussed separately.


