Piety and Self-Building
From his youth, Agha
Behjat was constantly engaged in self-purification and self-building.
In his ethical instructions, he always insists
that one should work hard at this task and forego and abandon many luxuries in
order to make headway against the endless demands of the soul.
He is of the opinion that in order to succeed in this jihad
al-akbar, ethical purity (akhlaq) and knowledge (‘ilm) go
hand in hand. In fact he considers
knowledge without self-purification, to be the more damaging than anything
else.
His famous advice to youths is ‘to read and practise
one hadith daily from the Chapter of Jihad al-nafs in Wasail
al-Shi’a of Shaykh Hurr al-Amili
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