The Super Pieces of Advice
This treatise is one of the works of Mirza Ahmad Ashtiyani, which has been written in Arabic and Persian. It has been translated from a collection of thousands Prophetic traditions in Shia books.
The author
Mirza Ahmad Ashtyani, son of Mirza Hasan Mujtahed Ashtyani. He was an expert scholar at intellectual and transmitted sciences. He studied in the presence of the philosophers “Kermanshahi” and “Ishkewari. Ashtyani ####taught jurisprudence, methodology (Osul) and intellectual sciences over forty years in Tehran. About 1927 – 1932 travelled to Njaf in order to complete the transmitted sciences and he himself was teaching. He taught “Asfar” (written by mullah Sadra) and many prominent scholars of Najaf attended his classes. “Allameh Tabatabaei” studied some parts of the lesson (Asfar) in his presence. Ashtyani died in 1975 and was nearly 100 years old.
Structure of the book:
Some of the subjects of the 1st volume:
- The first creature of God
- Perfection of the intellect
- The virtue of education and the intellect
- Imam Kazem’s will
- The invocation of God
- The Prophet’s pieces pf advice
- Imam Baqer’s pieces of advice, etc.
Some of the subjects of the second volume:
- The Prophet’s sermon
- The effects of repentance
- Respecting the elderly
- Moses’ questions to God
- The manners of eating food
- The Holy Hadith
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The Super Pieces of Advice