Life is a Journey Faith is the Vehicle MAJLIS 6 Hasnain Walji

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Life is a JourneyFaith is the VehicleMAJLIS
6Hasnain Walji

• Understanding Our faculties
• Emotional Intelligence

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Series Muharram 1431

• 1. Karbala an instrument of reform
• 2. Power of Intentional Living
• 3. The power of Critical Thinking
• 4. Time is lifes capital
• 5. Value Proposition of insaan
• 6. Emotional Intelligence EQ v/s IQ
• 7. Living a purposeful life
• 8. Nurturing the Next Generation
• 9. Concept of the Society of Believers
• 10. Life is a Journey Islam is the vehicle

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Value Proposition of insaan

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• Al-Tin 954

Every human being is valuable.  Because Allah
created all of them and He created in the best
mold and shape
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Tears Prescription for Reform.

• represents a brief flight that our spirit makes
  along with Husayn's spirit
• Ayatollah Mutahhari

Power of Intentional Living
Power of Critical Thinking
Time is the capital of life
Value Proposition of Insaan
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The Journey of the Nafs

• "Man 'arafa nafsahu .
• " the one who knows his nafs (soul or self),
  knows his Lord".
• Knowledge of the self, leads to knowledge of the
  Lord.
• Nasruddin Pen

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Disposition of the faithful

• The Prophet s said
• "Whoever is pleased with his good actions and
  displeased with his bad actions is a faithful.
• This is the basis of the journey of the nafs
• This is the way of ethics

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Origin of the word akhlaq .

• Disposition khulq
• Akhlaq is the plural for the word khulq.
• "Disposition" is that faculty of the soul where
  man performs spontaneously without thinking about
  them.
• Malakah is a property of the soul which comes
  into existence through exercise and repetitive
  practice

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Akhlaq means more than..

• Manners
• Etiquette
• To be on our best behavior ?
• Being Diplomatic
• Accommodating to all
• Nasuddin Alim Fish

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You have a choice

• Physical make-up produces certain dispositions
• Not compelled to abide by the dictates of your
  physical make-up.
• To overcome the dictates of physical nature you
  can acquire the disposition of choice.

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Balance Moderation

• To bring about changes we do not need to destroy
  our instincts of reproduction or
  self-preservation.
• Just as wild horse is trained to serve his
  master, so also can man attain perfection and
  wisdom through self-discipline and intelligent
  perseverance.

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Important and valuable book on Ilmul Akhlaq.

• Jamial-Sa'adat - The Collector of Felicities"
• by a scholar, mystic, and moral philosopher,
  Muhammad Mahdi ibn Abi Dharr al-Naraqi,
• Al-Naraqi was one of the most brilliant thinkers
  of the late 12th/18th and early 13th/lath
  century.

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Pains Pleasures of body soul
Tibb
Akhlaq

Body Disease Weakness of the body
Soul Injustice Ignorance Evil Habits
Pain
Soul Moral Ethical Values Generosity Faith
Body Wellness Well being
Pleasure
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Perfection of the soul lies in its grasp of
philosophy and ethics
Philosophy
Ethics

Contemplation towards human perfection towards
Qurbah of Alllah
Movement from evil habits traits, and towards
virtuous behavious
Practical wisdom al-hikmat al-amaliyyah
Speculative wisdom al-hikmat al-nadariyyah).
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Developing Faculties

• At the time creation, the soul is like a clean
  tablet, devoid of all traits - good or evil.
• As one progresses through life, one develops
  faculties which are directly related to the way
  one lives, thinks, and acts.
• Developing these faculties is a process and one
  such process to heighten ones awareness is the
  concept of EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE.

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Emotional IntelligenceCombination of Philosophy
and ethics
Personal Competence
Social Competence

Self-Awareness Knowing ones internal states,
preferences, resources, and intuitions
Social Awareness Awareness of others feelings,
needs or concerns
Awareness
Relationship Management Adeptness at inducing
desirable responses in others
Self-Management Managing ones internal states,
impulses, and resources
Actions
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Faculties of the soul

• 1. The power of intelligence
• (al-quwwah al-aqliyyah) - angelic.
• 2. The power of anger
• al-quwwah al-ghadabiyyah) ferocious.
• 3. The power of desire
• (al-quwwah al-shahwiyyah)- animalistic.
• 4. The power of imagination
• (al-quwwah al-wahmiyyah)- demoniac.

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The relationships of these four faculties to one
another

• Traveller on horseback accompanied by a dog and a
  a spy
• The mounted traveller represents reason.
• The mount represents desire and passion.
• The dog represents the power of anger
• The spy represents the imaginative power.

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Power of Anger Power of Passion
Anger
Passion

PLEASURE Being victorious Overcoming
Enemy Revenge
PLEASURE Food Drink Carnal Desires Acquisition
PAIN Absence or Denial of Above
PAIN Being Overpowered Defeated
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Power of Imagination Power of Intellect
Imagination
Intellect

PLEASURE Visualization Creativity Demonic
Tendencies
PLEASURE Knowledge Gnosis
PAIN Ignorance Deprivation of knowledge
PAIN Insufficiency in Above
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The Best of Pleasures

• The purest of pleasures is the one experienced by
  the faculty of reason.
• Animalistic faculties are transitory in nature
  and without any lasting value.
• Comparison of Knowledge Wealth by Imam Ali AS

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• Knowledge is the legacy of the Prophets wealth
  is the inheritance of the Pharaohs.
• You are to guard your wealth but knowledge guards
  you.
• Ghazzali The Robbers
• A man of wealth has many enemies, while a man of
  knowledge has many friends.

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• Knowledge cannot be stolen while wealth can be
  stolen.
• Time cannot harm knowledge but wealth rusts in
  course of time and wears away.

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When the faculties are in balance

Intellect Wisdom
Imagination Justice
Passion Chastity
Anger Courage
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Whats your Pleasure?

• Animal pleasures Anger Passion
• Man is ashamed of them
• conceals them
• Degrees of the pleasure of reasoning
• the highest of which is experienced in nearness
  to God.
• attained by love and knowledge of God,
• through abiding effort to be ever nearer to Him.
  

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New Definition of Shia?

• Shujaa
• The purification of the Power of Anger will
  result in courage.
• Hikmat
• The purification of the Power of Intellect will
  result in knowledge, and subsequently wisdom
• Iffat
• The purification of the Power of Passion will
  result in the chastity
• Adalat
• The purification of the Power of Imagination will
  cause the emergence of the faculty of justice in
  a human being.

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Diseases of the Power of the Intellect

• Simple ignorance
• not knowing.
• Compound ignorance
• being ignorant, and being unaware of one's
  ignorance.
• Perplexity and doubt
• the opposite of which are certainty and
  conviction.
• Shirk (polytheism)
• opposite of which is belief Tauheed

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Intellect Anger

• Cowardice is deficiency of courage - fear and
  irresolution in cases where there is no cause for
  them.
• Foolhardiness is the excess of reckless action in
  cases where it is inappropriate.

• Stupidity is deficiency of wisdom - not using
  the power of the intellect to understand the
  nature of things.
• Slyness is the excessive use of the intellect -
  using the power of the intellect in matters for
  which it is inappropriate

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Passion Imagination

• Lethargy is the deficient state for which the
  point of moderation is chastity - failure to use
  things which the body needs.
• Rapaciousness is the other extreme in opposition
  to lethargy that is, excess in sexual activity,
  eating and drinking, and other sensual pleasures.

• Submissiveness is the deficient state for which
  the point of moderation is justice - accepting
  oppression and tyranny.
• Tyranny is the other extreme in opposition to
  submissiveness that is, oppressing either one's
  own self or others.