This book is God's words about Evil and talks about the following:
- The Divine Commandment
First: The Divine Commandment prohibits evil
Second: Do not repay evil but overcome evil by good
Third: Do not be jealous or envy the wicked
- Types and models
First: Evil against God
Second: Examples of those who did evil in the sight of God
Third: Evil against Christ
Fourth: Evil against man (and against God likewis e)
Fifth: Repaying evil for good
Sixth: Suffering evil
Seventh: Times of evil
Eighth: Predicting evil
Ninth: Evil as punishment from God
- Causes of doing evil
First: Lack of knowledge of God and lack of fear of Him
Second: Evil comes from the heart
Third: The devil
Fourth: The evil eye; lusts; love of money
Fifth: Envy and jealousy
Sixth: Anger
Seventh: The tongue
- Description of the wicked
First: Attributes and condition of the wicked
Second: Ways of evil
Third: The wicked hates the upright
Fourth: The wicked always expects evil
Fifth: The wicked is pleased with evil
- How God deals with evil and evildoers
First: Far be it from God to do evil
Second: God bestows His grace on the godly and the wicked
Third: God knows evil and evildoers
Fourth: God's Holy Spirit rebukes us for evil
Fifth: God wants to forgive evil, because He is Compassionate and Merciful
Sixth: God delivers and saves us from evil
Seventh: God is able to turn evil into good
Eighth: God sometimes permits evil to happen
- How man deals with evil
First: Avoiding and resisting evil
a) By Fear of God and obeying His commandments
b) By wisdom
c) By leaving the lead to the Spirit
d) By abhorring evil
e) By fleeing from evil
f) By avoiding evil company
g) By self-control and keeping away from evil
h) By chastening and rebuking
i) By forbearance
j) By doing merciful and righteous works
k) By removing away evil
Second: Refraining from evil, praying, and asking for forgiveness
Third: How man deals with the wicked
a) Discerning between good and evil
b) Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
c) Fear of evil
d) Praying at the time of evil
e) Zeal for the law against the wicked
f) Rejoicing and thanksgiving at the fall of the wicked
- The consequence and the punishment of evil
First: Evil separates us from God
Second: Evil makes us lose our peace
Third: Evil causes harm to the others
Fourth: Evil arouses God's anger
Fifth: Woe to the evildoers
Sixth: God's punishment for evil
a) The removal of blessing and curse
b) Darkness
c) Defeat and frustration
d) Curse and strokes
e) God returns evil on the wicked
f) God eradicates evil
g) Depriving of salvation
h) Death, perishing, and destruction
i) Punishment on the Day of Judgment
- The Divine Commandment
First: The Divine Commandment prohibits evil
Second: Do not repay evil but overcome evil by good
Third: Do not be jealous or envy the wicked
- Types and models
First: Evil against God
Second: Examples of those who did evil in the sight of God
Third: Evil against Christ
Fourth: Evil against man (and against God likewis e)
Fifth: Repaying evil for good
Sixth: Suffering evil
Seventh: Times of evil
Eighth: Predicting evil
Ninth: Evil as punishment from God
- Causes of doing evil
First: Lack of knowledge of God and lack of fear of Him
Second: Evil comes from the heart
Third: The devil
Fourth: The evil eye; lusts; love of money
Fifth: Envy and jealousy
Sixth: Anger
Seventh: The tongue
- Description of the wicked
First: Attributes and condition of the wicked
Second: Ways of evil
Third: The wicked hates the upright
Fourth: The wicked always expects evil
Fifth: The wicked is pleased with evil
- How God deals with evil and evildoers
First: Far be it from God to do evil
Second: God bestows His grace on the godly and the wicked
Third: God knows evil and evildoers
Fourth: God's Holy Spirit rebukes us for evil
Fifth: God wants to forgive evil, because He is Compassionate and Merciful
Sixth: God delivers and saves us from evil
Seventh: God is able to turn evil into good
Eighth: God sometimes permits evil to happen
- How man deals with evil
First: Avoiding and resisting evil
a) By Fear of God and obeying His commandments
b) By wisdom
c) By leaving the lead to the Spirit
d) By abhorring evil
e) By fleeing from evil
f) By avoiding evil company
g) By self-control and keeping away from evil
h) By chastening and rebuking
i) By forbearance
j) By doing merciful and righteous works
k) By removing away evil
Second: Refraining from evil, praying, and asking for forgiveness
Third: How man deals with the wicked
a) Discerning between good and evil
b) Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
c) Fear of evil
d) Praying at the time of evil
e) Zeal for the law against the wicked
f) Rejoicing and thanksgiving at the fall of the wicked
- The consequence and the punishment of evil
First: Evil separates us from God
Second: Evil makes us lose our peace
Third: Evil causes harm to the others
Fourth: Evil arouses God's anger
Fifth: Woe to the evildoers
Sixth: God's punishment for evil
a) The removal of blessing and curse
b) Darkness
c) Defeat and frustration
d) Curse and strokes
e) God returns evil on the wicked
f) God eradicates evil
g) Depriving of salvation
h) Death, perishing, and destruction
i) Punishment on the Day of Judgment
