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Marvels of The Heart

The document explores the concept of the nafs and its role in the spiritual journey towards Allah, emphasizing the need for development and purification of the heart. It discusses the significance of appetite and anger as instinctive qualities that guide human behavior and the importance of sound knowledge for clarity and understanding. Additionally, it critiques certain theological doctrines and highlights the necessity of balance and moderation in life according to divine guidance.

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Marvels of The Heart

The document explores the concept of the nafs and its role in the spiritual journey towards Allah, emphasizing the need for development and purification of the heart. It discusses the significance of appetite and anger as instinctive qualities that guide human behavior and the importance of sound knowledge for clarity and understanding. Additionally, it critiques certain theological doctrines and highlights the necessity of balance and moderation in life according to divine guidance.

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Marvels of the Heart

Irrational soul
Passionate soul
Angry soul

The nafs is always with you and is an absolute path of our journey towards Allah swt. It is to
be developed and polished, and nurture it to become beautiful.
We begin dominated by our passions and anger.
Justifies what it wants to do.
Nafs, ‘aql, qalb, rouh

Lub, fu’aad

The heart is the highest essence of the human being.

True knowledge, beneficial knowledge, prophetic knowledge

Hanif

Augustine regarded as the father of the western chrisitanity or the Latin church
(exaggeration), created the doctrine of the original sin. He was from North Africa (Algeria).

The trinity has nothing to do with the Bible.

Irrational soul (ego): beginning of nafs. It is the unifying principle that brings together our
powers or capacities for anger and appetite.

Appetite is the instinctive quality. It is an inward quality that Allah created in us to guide us
towards the fulfilment of our bodily and psychological needs so that we can live and be
healthy and strong.
Anger is an instinctive quality. It is an inward quality that Allah created in us to guide us
towards repelling, turning away, diverting bodily and psychological harms that threaten our
lives our health and our strength.

Masslaha: universal benefit


Mafsada: things causing harm

Will is the capacity to imagine and choose/select. It comes out of appetite and anger.
Power is the capacity to do

Will and power grow out of appetite and anger

Pig
Dog
Imposter (false lord)
Satan
1. The heart must be fully mature; it must be fully developed; it must be sane
2. The heart must have full clarity; the mirror must be polished; it must be kept
polished. Done by belief and tawhid, leading a life of balance and moderation
according to what Allah has permitted and prohibited.
3. Use the mirror to look at the right things. The ultimate reality that is desired. Use the
heart to know the meaning and purpose of life. Discover the way to self-perfection,
purification, and the knowledge of Allah. The focus should be the presence of
Lordship; seeing the marvel of Allah in creation.
4. The heart must have sound knowledge to get knowledge. Types of knowledge that
are not sound become veil over the heart. They disable it to put the right construct
of things – area of fallacies, confusion, doubt, misconstrued believes, false world
views, inadequate world views, misuse of language and cognitive frames and
paradigms.
5. Combining mirrors; triangulation; using configuration of different types of
prerequisite knowledge.

Two primary sources of knowledge: The external world, and the preserved tablet

Fitra: innate knowledge

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