Ethics of Islam
Subtitle: Islamic Ethics
Publisher: Waqf Ikhlas Publications
Published: April 1998
Place of publication: İstanbul
Format: Online Book
Number of pages: 240
Description: Ethics of Islam is taken from the book Berîka by Muhammad Hâdimi. Immorality and ways to get rid of it; 40 depravities and cures to them; usefulness of ethics; what is a soul; strengths of a soul; personalities emanating from wisdom, courage, chastity and justice are extensively explained.

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The Ethics of Islam is a very difficult subject. A person who wants to read and understand this book has to have certain background or prerequisites. Anyone who attended high school or college knows that one cannot take a course unless meets its prerequisites. Actually required prerequisites are very long for this book. Basically, one has to be quite learned about the Islamic religion. We employed various techniques and strived very hard to make the book readable by those who do not have the required prerequisites. Those who don't have the background have to approach this book like taking a difficult course in the school. Getting a good grade from a difficult course requires lots of time (unquantifiable by us) and studying. Understanding and learning ethics of Islam also requires much time and studying. We can assure the reader that if you read this book like a novel, you will not gain anything. Knowing the difficulty involved, we have used simple words while constructing the sentences. When some words did not have corresponding English versions, sometimes, we added simplified explanatory phrases and used them instead. When certain words were repeated often, using their simplified explanations again and again was very difficult (e.g., Ahl al-bidat, Amr al-maruf, Fard, Halal, Haram, Wajib, Jaiz, Makruh, Tanzih al-Makruh, Tahrim al-Makruh and the like). We have put these simplified explanatory phrases at the beginning of the chapter as "Keywords" so that the reader may refer to it and we could use the keyword in the text. In other instances, certain terms were used in their original form, e.g., Sunnat, Hadith, Jihad, Fitna, Amr al-maruf or Nahy anil munkar. Another difficulty involves citing an action as permissible or forbidden or the like. During the past 1400 years of Islamic history, judgements were passed by the scholars or qualified judges of their times almost on every action of a person. This book also repeats various kinds of judgements after explaining an action or affair. These judgements are different from an ordinary judgement passed by a judge in the sense that these have connotations of bringing rewards or punishments in the next world. The reader must learn their meaning before advancing any further in the subject. A good strategy might be, reading the chapter once and then coming back and reading it again. The translator, where appropriate, added explanations within a curly parenthesis, e.g., {...}. Also, to make the subject matter easier for those who are familiar with Arabic, we have included Arabic terms along with their English versions.
Table of contents: title: Ethics of Islam; title: Preface to the Turkish Edition; title: Translator's note; title: FIRST PART OF THE BOOK; title: FIRST CHAPTER; title: VICES AND METHODS OF CLEANSING ONE'S SELF FROM THEM; title: UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR OR IMMORALITY AND ITS REMEDY; title: # 1. Disbelief; title: # 2. Ignorance; title: # 3. Greed for wealth, power, ranks or positions; title: # 4. The fear of being accused of having faults; title: # 5. Love of being praise; title: # 6. Innovations in Belief (Bidat Belief); title: # 7. Following desires of the Soul; title: # 8. Imitative Belief (Taqlid); title: # 9. Hypocrisy (Riya); title: # 10. Worldly ambitions (Tul-i amal); title: # 11. Using forbidden means to obtain worldlies (Tama); title: # 12. Conceit (Kibr); title: # 13. Excessive humility (Tazallul); title: # 14. Self Love (Ujb); title: # 15. Jealosy (Hasad); title: # 16. Hatred (Hiqd); title: # 17. Rejoicing at another's misfortune (Shamat.at); title: # 18. Seperation (Hijr); title: # 19. Cowardice (Jubn); title: # 20. Wrath (Tahawwur); title: # 21. Breaking one's promise (Gadr); title: # 22. Perfidy (Hiyanat); title: # 23. Not keeping the promise; title: # 24. Having evil opinions for others (su-i zan); title: # 25. Excessive love for the material things; title: # 26. Postponing doing good deeds (Taswif); title: # 27. Loving sinnners (Fasiks); title: # 28. Animosity towards scholars; title: # 29. Instigation (Fitna); title: # 30. Comprimizing (Mudahana) and Managing (Mudara); title: # 31. Obstinacy (Inad) and "Mukabara; title: # 32. Hypocrisy (Nifak); title: # 33. Not thinking profoundly, not pondering; title: # 34. Cursing at Muslims; title: # 35. Giving improper names to Muslims; title: # 36. Rejection of excuse; title: # 37. Making wrong interpretations of the Qur'an; title: # 38. Insistance on committing forbidden actions; title: # 39. Backbiting (Gibat); title: # 40. Not performing repentance; title: SECOND PART OF THE BOOK; title: FIRST CHAPTER; title: PREFACE; title: First Topic: Ethics of Islam will be divided into three categories.; title: Second Topic: usefulness and application of knowledge of ethics; title: Third Topic: explanation of subject of knowledge of ethics; title: First step: explanation of spiritual heart (Qalb) and spirit (Ruh); title: # 1. Spiritual Heart and Spirit exist; title: # 2. Spiritual Heart and Spirit are sunstance; title: # 3. Spiritual Heart and Spirit are simple; title: # 4. Spiritual Heart and Spirit are not objects; title: # 5. Spiritual Heart and Spirt understand and govern; title: # 6. Spirit cannot be perceived through sense organs; title: # Second step: explanation of what happens when a person dies.; title: # Third step: the Spiritual Heart and Spirit have powers; title: FIRST SUPPLEMET TO THE PREFACE; title: SECOND SUPPLEMET TO THE PREFACE; title: KNOWLEDGE OF ETHICS AND TEACHINGS OF MORALS IN ISLAM; title: # First section; title: # Second section; title: # Eleven virtues that are outcome of courage; title: # Chastity begets twelve characters; title: # Justice gives birth to twelve habits; title: # Third section; title: # Fourth section; title: # Fifth section - numarating superiorities of Justice; title: # Sixth section