Course Curriculum
| Week 1: Intro to Self-Building | |||
| 1. About the Five Risalat Textbooks | 00:00:00 | ||
| 2. Book Two: Islamic Plan for Life | 00:00:00 | ||
| 3. A Guide to Felicity | 00:00:00 | ||
| 4. Felicity Depends Largely on the Heart | 00:00:00 | ||
| 5. A Glance at the Units | 00:00:00 | ||
| 6. External Resources on Self-Knowledge & Self-Building | 00:00:00 | ||
| 7. Self-Building | 00:00:00 | ||
| 8. Step 1: Awareness | 00:00:00 | ||
| 9. Step 2: Self-Knowledge | 00:00:00 | ||
| 10. Step 3: Self-Care | 00:00:00 | ||
| Week 2: Self-Building & Piety | |||
| 1. Three Key Methods for Self-Building | 00:00:00 | ||
| 2. Taqwa | 00:00:00 | ||
| 3. How to Achieve Taqwa | 00:00:00 | ||
| 4. a. By Strengthening Our Determination | 00:00:00 | ||
| 5. b. By Strengthening Our Faith | 00:00:00 | ||
| 6. c. By Developing Love for God | 00:00:00 | ||
| 7. d. By Developing Love for the Godly | 00:00:00 | ||
| 8. e. By Praying to God | 00:00:00 | ||
| 9. Outcomes of Taqwa | 00:00:00 | ||
| 10. Six Signs of Taqwa | 00:00:00 | ||
| Week 3: Remembrance of God | |||
| 1. Dhikr: The Cure for Everything | 00:00:00 | ||
| 2. Adaptable Nature of Human Beings | 00:00:00 | ||
| 3. Taking Control of Our Mind and Heart | 00:00:00 | ||
| 4. Having God-Centric Thinking | 00:00:00 | ||
| 5. Salah is the Best Way for the Remembrance of Allah | 00:00:00 | ||
| 6. Dhikr as More Than Just Remembrance | 00:00:00 | ||
| 7. Remembrance of the Heart | 00:00:00 | ||
| 8. Remembrance by Practice | 00:00:00 | ||
| 9. Verbal Remembrance | 00:00:00 | ||
| 10. Strive to Do Dhikr in All Three Ways | 00:00:00 | ||
| 11. Love & Focus | 00:00:00 | ||
| 12. Outcomes of Remembrance of Allah (SWT) | 00:00:00 | ||
| 13. Practical Steps to Enhance Dhikr | 00:00:00 | ||
| 14. Two Consequences of Forgetfulness | 00:00:00 | ||
| 15. Four Obstacles to Dhikr | 00:00:00 | ||
| Week 4: Repentance | |||
| 1. The Reality of Tawbah | 00:00:00 | ||
| 2. Four Elements of Tawbah | 00:00:00 | ||
| 3. Signs of the Perfect Tawbah | 00:00:00 | ||
| 4. Do Not Postpone Tawbah | 00:00:00 | ||
| 5. No Sin Is Minor | 00:00:00 | ||
| 6. Five Outcomes of Tawbah | 00:00:00 | ||
| 7. Practical Ways to Do Tawbah | 00:00:00 | ||
| 8. My Humble Request to the Youth | 00:00:00 | ||
| Week 5: Supplication (du'a) | |||
| 1. Duʿa Is Valued across the Abrahamic Religions | 00:00:00 | ||
| 2. Two Qurʾanic Verses on Duʿa | 00:00:00 | ||
| 3. Duʿa Is the Believer’s Weapon | 00:00:00 | ||
| 4. The Power of Spiritual Weapons and Tools | 00:00:00 | ||
| 5. Duʿa Is the Core of Worship | 00:00:00 | ||
| 6. The Most Incompetent People | 00:00:00 | ||
| 7. Duʿa Helps to Shift Our Perspective | 00:00:00 | ||
| 8. Bring the Spirit of Duʿa to Your Actions | 00:00:00 | ||
| 9. Connection between Duʿa and Maʿrifah | 00:00:00 | ||
| 10. Know that Your Request Is Just Outside the Door | 00:00:00 | ||
| 11. Outcomes of Duʿa | 00:00:00 | ||
| 12. Duʿa Need Not Be with a Request | 00:00:00 | ||
| 13. Duʿa Anytime, Anywhere, Anyhow | 00:00:00 | ||
| 14. Key Etiquettes of Dua’ | 00:00:00 | ||
| 15. Most Productive Times and Places for Dua’ | 00:00:00 | ||
| 16. Unanswered Duʿa | 00:00:00 | ||
| 17. Weapon of the Prophets | 00:00:00 | ||
| 18. Munajat: Intimate Duʿa | 00:00:00 | ||
| Week 6: Gratitude | |||
| 1. Shukr: A Very Natural Response | 00:00:00 | ||
| 2. The Difference Between a Blessing and an Affliction | 00:00:00 | ||
| 3. God’s Blessings Are Impossible to Count | 00:00:00 | ||
| 4. Three Levels of Shukr | 00:00:00 | ||
| 5. Every Expression of Gratitude Demands Another | 00:00:00 | ||
| 6. Thanking Other People | 00:00:00 | ||
| 7. Important Outcome of Shukr | 00:00:00 | ||
| 8. Obstacles to Shukr | 00:00:00 | ||
| 9. Few of God’s Servants Are Grateful | 00:00:00 | ||
| Week 7: Trust in God (tawakkul) | |||
| 1. Prophet Yusuf’s Realization | 00:00:00 | ||
| 2. The Balanced Position: Tawakkul | 00:00:00 | ||
| 3. God as the Only Key Player | 00:00:00 | ||
| 4. Great Examples of Tawakkul | 00:00:00 | ||
| 5. Five Outcomes of Tawakkul | 00:00:00 | ||
| 6. How To Invite Allah (swt) to Intervene | 00:00:00 | ||
| Week 8: Sincerity | |||
| 1. Intention: The Spirit of Our Actions | 00:00:00 | ||
| 2. Sincerity as the Opposite of Hidden Polytheism | 00:00:00 | ||
| 3. Levels of Sincerity | 00:00:00 | ||
| 4. The Sincere & Praise | 00:00:00 | ||
| 5. Famous Hadith by Lady Fatimah (as) | 00:00:00 | ||
| 6. How to Free the Heart from Ostentation | 00:00:00 | ||
| Week 9: Planning & Organization | |||
| 1. Importance of Your Time | 00:00:00 | ||
| 2. Imam Ali’s Advice on Appropriate Timing | 00:00:00 | ||
| 3. Guidelines for Planning | 00:00:00 | ||
| 4. Imam Khomeini Observed a Precise Schedule | 00:00:00 | ||
| 5. Signs of a Good Plan | 00:00:00 | ||
| 6. Allamah Tabatabaʾis Judicious Use of His Time | 00:00:00 | ||
| 7. Successful Planners | 00:00:00 | ||
| Week 10: Rights of Others | |||
| 1. Imam Ali Illustrates the Ugliness of Ẓulm | 00:00:00 | ||
| 2. The Rights of God, Others & Ourselves | 00:00:00 | ||
| 3. The Severity of Backbiting | 00:00:00 | ||
| 4. Important Rights of Others | 00:00:00 | ||
| 5. What Makes Us Disregard Others’ Rights? | 00:00:00 | ||
| Week 11: Desiring Good for Others | |||
| 1. Imam Ali’s Generous Act | 00:00:00 | ||
| 2. Nuṣḥ: Desiring Good For Others | 00:00:00 | ||
| 3. The Many Forms Of Nuṣḥ | 00:00:00 | ||
| 4. The Root of Nuṣḥ | 00:00:00 | ||
| 5. Key Characteristics of Divine Creation | 00:00:00 | ||
| 6. Lady Fatima (as) & Guiding Others | 00:00:00 | ||
| 7. Qualities of Naṣiḥ | 00:00:00 | ||
| 8. Muwāsāt: Helping Others | 00:00:00 | ||
| 9. How Do We Eradicate Poverty? | 00:00:00 | ||
| 10. Why Must We Help Others? | 00:00:00 | ||
| 11. Outcomes Of Helping Others | 00:00:00 | ||
| 12. When People In Power Help The Needy | 00:00:00 | ||
| 13. When In Difficulty With No Time To Spare | 00:00:00 | ||
| 14. Developing The Virtue Of Helpfulness | 00:00:00 | ||
| 15. Īthār: Giving Preference To Others | 00:00:00 | ||
| 16. Qualities That Inhibit Self-Sacrifice | 00:00:00 | ||
| 17. To Whom Should We Compare Ourselves? | 00:00:00 | ||
| Week 12: Good Manners | |||
| 1. Why Good-Temperedness? | 00:00:00 | ||
| 2. Ḥusn Al-Khulq Vs. Ḥusn Al-Khalq | 00:00:00 | ||
| 3. Contributing Factor for Good-Temperedness | 00:00:00 | ||
| 4. Outcomes Of Good-Temperedness | 00:00:00 | ||
| 5. Ways To Improve Our Temperament | 00:00:00 | ||
| 6. Great Examples of Prophet (p) & Ahlul Bayt (as) | 00:00:00 | ||
| 7. How To Strike A Balance | 00:00:00 | ||
| 8. Those Who Have More Rights | 00:00:00 | ||
| Week 13: Trustworthiness & Loyalty | |||
| 1. The Importance of Upholding the Trust | 00:00:00 | ||
| 2. What Is A Trust? | 00:00:00 | ||
| 3. Upholding Trusts to the Impious and during Hardship | 00:00:00 | ||
| 4. Choosing Reliable Trustees | 00:00:00 | ||
| 5. Two Measures Of Our Faith | 00:00:00 | ||
| 6. Keeping Promises | 00:00:00 | ||
| 7. Loyalty Of The Prophets | 00:00:00 | ||
| 8. How To Become More Trustworthy And Loyal | 00:00:00 | ||
| 9. Not All Trusts & Promises Are Equal In Importance | 00:00:00 | ||
| 10. How To Cope With The Loss Of A Loved One | 00:00:00 | ||
| Week 14: Modesty & Chastity | |||
| 1. Hayāʾ Defined | 00:00:00 | ||
| 2. Iffah Defined | 00:00:00 | ||
| 3. We Have An Innate Sense Of Hayāʾ | 00:00:00 | ||
| 4. Prophet Muhammad (S) Was A Man Of Hayāʾ | 00:00:00 | ||
| 5. It’s Our Responsibility To Preserve Hayāʾ | 00:00:00 | ||
| 6. Dignity Breeds Hayāʾ | 00:00:00 | ||
| 7. Hayāʾ Before God & His Witnesses | 00:00:00 | ||
| 8. Hayāʾ vs. Shyness | 00:00:00 | ||
| 10. Don’t Be Ashamed To Say “I Don’t Know” | 00:00:00 | ||
| 11. Outcomes Of Hayāʾ | 00:00:00 | ||
| 12. Iffah – Controlling Our Lower Desires | 00:00:00 | ||
| 13. Different Dimensions of ‘Iffah | 00:00:00 | ||
| 14. Many Lose their Values in the End of Time | 00:00:00 | ||
| 15. Examples of the Prophets & Imams | 00:00:00 | ||
| 16. The Importance of Iffah in Sexual Relations | 00:00:00 | ||
| 17. The Importance of ‘Iffah in Hadith | 00:00:00 | ||
| 18. The Detrimental Effects Of Not Controlling Sexual Desires | 00:00:00 | ||
| Week 15: Humbleness | |||
| 1. A Practical Example Of Humbleness | 00:00:00 | ||
| 2. Humbleness Is Closely Connected To Tawḥīd | 00:00:00 | ||
| 3. Humbleness Before God’s Creation | 00:00:00 | ||
| 4. Humbleness, the Rich and the Poor | 00:00:00 | ||
| 5. Where Does Arrogance Come From? | 00:00:00 | ||
| 6. The True Source of Merit | 00:00:00 | ||
| 7. Humility vs. Degradation | 00:00:00 | ||
| 8. Outcomes Of Humility | 00:00:00 | ||
| 9. Signs Of A Humble Person | 00:00:00 | ||
| 10. The Prophet (S) Showed Maximum Humility | 00:00:00 | ||
| 11. How To Acquire Humbleness | 00:00:00 | ||
| Week 16: Truthfulness | |||
| 1. Imam Khomeini’s Relentless Commitment To Telling The Truth | 00:00:00 | ||
| 2. Truthfulness And Its Dimensions | 00:00:00 | ||
| 3. The Worst Of All Evils | 00:00:00 | ||
| 4. Telling Lies Conflicts With Faith | 00:00:00 | ||
| 5. Why Do People Tell Lies? | 00:00:00 | ||
| 6. What Is The Cure? | 00:00:00 | ||
| 7. Avoid Lies—Big Or Small, Serious Or Humorous | 00:00:00 | ||
| 8. Outcomes Of Telling The Truth | 00:00:00 | ||
| 9. How Lying Can Decrease Sustenance | 00:00:00 | ||
| 10. Signs Of People Who Are Truthful | 00:00:00 | ||
| 11. Some Truths Need Not Be Spoken | 00:00:00 | ||
| 12. Is It Ever Okay To Tell A Lie? | 00:00:00 | ||
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