Esence of matter	Page No
Ethics Of Islam	1
Publisher’s Note:	2
A Warning:	2
Ethics Of Islam	3
Preface	3
Islamic Ethics	9
First Chapter	9
Vices And Methods Of Cleansing One’s Self From Them	9
Unethical Behavior Or Immorality And Its Remedy	12
1– Disbelief (Kufr)	19
2– Ignorance	31
3– Greed For Wealth, Power, Ranks, Or Positions	31
4– The Fear Of Being Accused Of Having Faults	34
5– Fondness For Being Praised	36
6– Heretical Beliefs (Bid’ats)	36
7– Following The Desires Of The Nafs	38
8– Imitative Belief (Taqlid)	44
9– Ostentation (Riyâ)	47
10– Worldly Ambitions (Tûl-I Amal)	55
11– Using Forbidden Means To Obtain Worldlies (Tama’)	57
12– Conceit (Kibr)	66
Value Of Knowledge And Scholars	90
13– Excessive Humility (Tazallul)	95
14– Self Love (’Ujb)	98
15– Jealousy (Hasad)	101
16– Hatred (Hiqd)	111
17– Rejoicing At Another’s Misfortune (Shamatat)	117
18– Seperation ( H i j r )	118
19– Cowardice ( J u b n )	121
20– Tahawwur	122
21– Breach Of Promise (Ghadr)	129
22– Perfidy (Hiyânat)	130
23– Breach Of Promise	131
24– To Have A Bad Opinion About Others (Sû-i Zan)	133
25– Love Of Property	136
26– Procrastination In Performing Pious Deeds (Taswîf)	141
27– Sympathy For Fâsiqs	141
28– Animosity Toward Scholars	144
29– Instigation (Fitna)	145

30– Comprimising (Mudâhana) And Dissimulation (Mudârâ)	150
31– Obstinacy (Inâd) And Arrogance (Mukabara)	153
32– Hypocrisy (Nifaq)	153
33– Not Thinking Profoundly, Not Pondering	153
34– Malediction Over Muslims	156
35– Giving Improper Names To Muslims	157
36– Rejection Of An Excuse	158
37– Erroneous Explanation Of The Qur’an Al-Kerîm	159
38– Insistence In Committing Forbidden (Harâm) Actions	163
39– Backbiting (Ghiybat)	164
40– Not Making Tawba	168
Part Two	182
First Chapter	182
Preface	182
First Supplement To Preface	199
Second Supplement To The Preface	207
Knowledge Of Ethics And Teaching Of Morals In Islam	214
First Section	214
Second Section	216
Courage Yields Eleven Virtues	218
Chastity (Iffat) Begets Twelve Virtues	220
Justice (’Adâlat) Gives Birth To Twelve Habits	222
Third Section	226
Fourth Section	230
Fifth Section	235
Sixth Section	241
An Exemplary True Muslim	244

1 - Our Prophet 'sall-Allâhu 'alaihi wa sallam' stated: "A person whom Allâhu ta'âlâ loves very much is one who learns his religion and teaches it to others. Learn your religion from the mouths of Islamic scholars!"

A person who cannot find a true scholar must learn by reading books written by the scholars of Ahl as-sunna, and try hard to spread these books. A Müslim who has 'ilm (knowledge), 'amal (practising what one knows; obeying Islam's commandments and prohibitions), and ikhlâs (doing everything only to please Allâhu ta'âlâ) is called an Islamic scholar. A person who represents himself as an Islamic scholar though he lacks any one of these qualifications is called an 'evil religious scholar', or an 'impostor'. The Islamic scholar will guide you to causes which in turn will open the gates to happiness; he is the protector of faith. The impostor will mislead you into such causes as will make you end up in perdition; he is the Satan's accomplice.[1] (There is a certain) prayer (called) Istighfâr (which), whenever you say, (recite or read) it, will make you attain causes which will shield you against afflictions and troubles.

2 - The Nejât-ul-musallî was written in Turkish in the year 1217 (A.H.) by Ahmed Şevki Efendi, and was printed in İstanbul in 1305. İt consists of a hundred and ninety-seven (197) pages. İt is stated as follows on its final page: Ibni Jezerî, (751 [1350 A.D.], Damascus - 833 [1429], Shîrâz,) states as follows in his book Hisn ul-hasîn: A hadîth-i-sherîf reads as follows: "If an invalid person says Lâ ilâha illâ anta subhânaka innî kuntu min-az-zâlimîn,' forty times, he will die as a martyr (if his predetermined life-span is over). If he recovers, all his sins will be pardoned." This prayer is the eighty-seventh âyat-i- kerîma of Anbiyâ sûra. Please see the final parts of the thirteenth and the fifteenth chapters of the current book!

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[1] Knowledge that is acquired not for the purpose of practising it with ikhlâs, will not be beneficial. Please see the 366th and 367th pages of the first volume of Hadîqa, and also the 36th and the 40th and the 59th letters in the first volume of Maktûbât. (The English versions of these letters exist in the 16th and the 25th and the 28th chapters, respectively, of the second fascicle of Endless Bliss).

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