The Greatest Jihad
Publisher: Islamic Book Trust
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9789675062322
Description: In this short work, Imam Khomeini invites all to refinement of the soul, asceticism and piety. Addressing students in seminaries, he reminds them to take heed of fact that the major purpose of the prophets has been spiritual progress and moral improvement, and that they must not content themselves with learning a few terms of Islamic jurisprudence.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Translator’s Introduction; title: 1 The greatest jihad: Combat with the self; title: 2 Recommendations for the seminaries of religious learning; title: 3 Recommendations for the seminary students; title: 4 The importance of the refinement and purification of the soul; title: 5 Warnings to the seminaries; title: 6 Divine blessings; title: 7 Points regarding the munajat of the month of Sha‘ban; title: 8 The veils of man; title: 9 Knowledge and faith; title: 10 The first step in refinement; title: 11 Another warning; title: Appendix 1: Selected quotations; title: Appendix 2: The munajat of Sha‘ban; title: Index