Ethics

It should be remembered that encouragement and appreciation, with all their beneficial and revolutionary results, have certain reasonable and logical limits beyond which they must not go. For, in the same way as indifference to the positive and const...

It should be remembered that encouragement and app...

In the same way as man has physical needs in life which he strives and struggles to fulfil, the soul too has needs that must be satisfied. These spiritual needs and urges have been placed by the hands of creation in the depths of his soul. The soul c...

In the same way as man has physical needs in life ...

A single laudatory remark can produce a profound effect on one's spirit and bring about a spiritual revolution that could impel one to devote an entire lifetime to intense effort and endeavour for achievement and success. There are many who consider ...

A single laudatory remark can produce a profound e...

Finding fault with people and negating their personality are one of the greatest defects of our society and these characteristics are prevalent among all its various classes. Anyone who makes an innovative move or starts something new immediately att...

Finding fault with people and negating their perso...

The more expansive and wider the scope of human feeling, the greater the number of people that it embraces. Such an expansive love and benevolence cannot find room in the breasts of people who have narrow and straitened hearts. Their benevolence is n...

The more expansive and wider the scope of human fe...

The Islamic programme of education has been framed with a view to expanding general social consciousness and broadening the people's intellectual horizons. That is because the wider their intellectual perspective and the higher their level of thinkin...

The Islamic programme of education has been framed...

If today's developed nations allocate an amount of their yearly budget and a fraction of their economic resources for the development of backward and underdeveloped nations, their action, in the first place, is not inspired by pure humanitarian motiv...

If today's developed nations allocate an amount of...

When the Prophet of Islam (s) was asked as to who was the dearest of human beings to God, he replied: It is someone who is of greatest benefit to the people.' The Messenger of God (s) also said If someone hears a person calling Muslims for help and d...

When the Prophet of Islam (s) was asked as to who ...

Of the prominent signs of a Muslim are kindness and benevolence, a sincere kindness and generosity that are inspired by a special motive. It is a kindness that is done for the sake of God, even though the persons to whom it is done be strangers one d...

Of the prominent signs of a Muslim are kindness an...

It is no piety that you turn you faces to the east and to the west. True piety is this: to believe in God, and the Last Day, the angels, the Scripture, and the prophets, to give of one's substance however cherished, to kinsmen and orphans, the needy,...

It is no piety that you turn you faces to the east...

The delicate feelings and emotions that illuminate the panorama of life in the form of various forms of kindness, help and assistance to one's fellow beings belong to the sublimest of human motives. It is this feeling that intensely affects the human...

The delicate feelings and emotions that illuminate...

Those who view every act of benevolence towards others as a cumbersome matter and regard people with ill will and resentment, are, in fact, those who have severed their spiritual links with the world in which they live, so much so that they are immer...

Those who view every act of benevolence towards ot...

Striving to solve the problem of others and relieving them of their afflictions is not only the duty of every person, it is one of the best and sublimest pleasures of life. The scope of one's love should be so wide and inclusive that there should be ...

Striving to solve the problem of others and reliev...

One thing that is quite effective in diminishing the impact of anxiety and grief is making an effort to appear cheerful and happy: 'Ali, the Commander of the Faithful, may peace be upon him, says: Keep your good spirits in adversities and maintain a ...

One thing that is quite effective in diminishing t...

Unburdening one's heart with loyal and sincere friends is one of the means of obtaining relief from grief and mental tension. Persons in a state of grief must be given the opportunity to relieve their inward tensions by talking about their hardships ...

Unburdening one's heart with loyal and sincere fri...

Islam propels the human heart towards everlasting life. Although faith in resurrection is a real and living faith that raises man over the plane of the sensible and vitalises his faculties for the realisation of sublime human ideals, it does not rest...

Islam propels the human heart towards everlasting ...

The great extent of one's expectations leads one to become a constant victim of sorrow and distress. Those who are realistic in their outlook consider an immoderate amount of wealth to be an obstacle to happiness and mental peace. Happiness and wretc...

The great extent of one's expectations leads one t...

A study of the history of human progress proves that the supports of man's civilisation and culture have always rested on the shoulders of those for whom the power of faith had made it easy for them to bear the heavy burden of hardship and pain whose...

A study of the history of human progress proves th...

One who does not possess the asset of faith is quite vulnerable against the unfavourable forces of nature. He considers himself a victim of its overwhelming and tyrannical forces. Even if he does not make a retreat in the first encounter with afflict...

One who does not possess the asset of faith is qui...

Basically, man's creation is such that he is compelled to bear a lot of physical and spiritual hardships in order to satisfy the needs of his life. Because it is in the course of this toil and endeavour for obtaining the material means of life that h...

Basically, man's creation is such that he is compe...

Need and deprivation cause suffering, and for this reason the mass of people are in perpetual battle against need and de- privation. But the people all whose material needs are satisfied become subject to a kind of spiritual malaise and agony. In ord...

Need and deprivation cause suffering, and for this...