Islamic Books

Lesson Fourteen Characteristics of the Hereafter    The images that we form in our minds of persons, gardens, cities or other places when we hear them described to us, are generally quite different...

Lesson Fifteen Compensating for Our Sins    In just the same way that numerous bodily sicknesses can be cured, the spirit can be cured of its afflictions. Islam has pointed the way to the cure by...

Lesson Sixteen Man's Situation in the Intermediate Realm    The present existence of an intermediate realm and of separate destinations there for the virtuous and the wicked is a well-founded religious...

Lesson Seventeen The Criteria by Which our Deeds will be Judged    Let us now examine how our deeds will be judged and weighed after resurrection. As we have previously remarked, the mental pictures...

Lesson Nineteen The Assumption of Form by Our Deeds    In the past it was believed by specialists in the empirical sciences that an insurmountable barrier existed between matter and energy. Further...

Lesson Twenty The Eternal Nature of Punishment    The eternal nature of the punishment that the faithless and wicked are to suffer in hellfire presents a problem for many people. Given the fact that...

Part Two : Allamah Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai' STAGES OF SPIRITUAL JOURNEY    A materialist passes his life in the dark valley of materialism. He is plunged in the...

Sincerity of Devotion    It must be remembered that without being sincere in the way of Allah it is not possible to attain to spiritual stations and stages. Truth cannot...

THE TWELVE WORLDS    On the basis of what has been said above, a devotee, making a spiritual journey has to pass through 12 Worlds before reaching the world of sincerity....

SEEKING ALLAH'S GUIDANCE    The first thing that a spiritual traveller has to do is to inquire into various religions as far as possible so that he may become conversant...

(vii) Checking    It means that the spiritual traveller should every day have a fixed time for checking and assessing what he had done during the past 24 hours. The idea of this checking...

Eradication of Devilish Insinuations    The spiritual traveller must have full control over himself so that no thought might enter his mind inadvertently and no action might...