Table of Contents
Preface: Comparisons between Belief and Unbelief
The First Word: The worth of Bismillah
The Second Word: The way to contentment
The Third Word: Choosing the right way
The Fourth Word: The value of the Prescribed Prayers
The Fifth Word: The right training for believers
The Sixth Word: The supreme transaction
The Seventh Word: The door to human happiness
The Eighth Word: The necessity of religion
The Twelfth Word: A brief comparison between the Qur’an’s wisdom and human philosophy and scientism
The Thirteenth Word: Conversations with young people and prisoners
- A warning and lesson to a group of unhappy, young people
- A conversation with prisoners
- An effective solace for prisoners
- Advice to prisoners
- The necessity of brotherhood between prisoners
- An important matter
The Fourteenth Word: A warning lesson for my heedless soul
The Seventeenth Word: The meaning of the worldly life, and remedies for worldly misfortune
- The first station
- The second station: A supplication
- “I love not those that set”
- Descriptions of the worlds of the rightly-guided and the heedless
The Twenty-third Word: Virtues of belief and remarks on our misery and happiness
The first chapter
The second chapter: Five remarks on human misery and happiness
The Twenty-fourth Word: Love, worship and thanksgiving
The Twenty-fifth Word: The miraculousness or inimitability of the Qur’an
- The second radiance of the third ray: The ever-freshness of the Qur’an
The Eleventh Ray: Some of belief’s fruits
- An addendum to the tenth matter: Belief changes all gloom and loneliness into joy
The Twenty-sixth Word: Belief in Divine Destiny and silencing the obstinate, arrogant soul
The Thirtieth Word: An exposition of ego or human selfhood
The Thirty-second Word: The way of destruction and the way of happiness
The First Gleam: Taking refuge in God with the supplication of the Prophet Jonah
The Seventeenth Gleam: The second Europe and the Qur’an’s students
The Twenty-fourth Gleam: Dress code for women
The First Letter: Figurative love and true love
The Ninth Letter: Orientation of human feelings or inclinations, and iman (belief–conviction) and Islam (being a Muslim)
The Twenty-ninth Letter: God is the Light of the heavens and the earth
The Eleventh Ray: Some of belief’s fruits
- A summary of the second matter
- The third matter
- The fourth matter
- A summary of the eighth matter
The Fifteenth Ray: Asking the Creator about the Creator Himself
The Twenty-ninth Gleam: Why belief is the greatest blessing for humankind
Gleams of Truth
In an assembly in the world of representations or ideal forms
Comparisons between Islam and modern civilization, and between scientific genius and the guidance of Islam
All true pain is in misguidance, and all true pleasure in belief: a mighty truth dressed in imagination