Ramadan is not just a month of fasting, but a month of spiritual healing. Presented from an interfaith perspective as a means to motivate believers to action, the articles by such famous writers as Muhammad al-Ghazzali, Shaykh Abdul Qadir Jilani, Imam Jawziyya, Ibn Sireen, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Mawlana Mawdudi and Laleh Bakhtiar include essays on both the Law and the Way. They are divided into the traditional threefold method of spiritual healing, namely, knowledge, inner processing and action. The method produces the seven characteristics of devotees as Goal-Setters and Believers (knowledge, cognition, theoethics), Strategists, Moral Healers, Energizers (inner processing, affect or emotions, psychoethics) and Human Bonders and Master Communicators (action or behavior towards God, self and others, socioethics).

Ramadan: Motivating Believers to Action : An Interfaith Perspective

Religion & Spirituality

Laleh Bakhtiar

Islam

Kazi Publications, Inc.

Identifying the origin of the Enneagram with a work by the beloved persian poet Jalal al-Din Rumi, the author outlines a clear and exhaustive course by which the Enneagram can be reclaimed from its modern adaptations and placed into its proper context as a sacred and multilayered system of inner discovery and understanding.

Rumi's Original Sufi Enneagram

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

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The Unfolding of the Human Soul: The Giver of Forms/Active Intellect, a separate intelligence and an immaterial substance, gives substantial forms to properly prepared matter. The properly prepared matter then receives the substantial form of the human soul from the Giver of Forms when the male and female ova unite in creating an embryo and its undifferentiated humours (the humours play a basic role within the human form similar to the role of the elements in the sublunar world). The Giver of Forms/Active Intellect gives the Breath of Life (Spirit), Innate Heat and Radical Moisture to the embryo. The Breath of Life enters the heart where it undergoes combustion and circulates throughout the embryo through its blood stream. The Breath of Life has three energies (spirits): vital, natural and nervous. The vital energy enters the heart; the natural energy enters the liver; and the nervous energy enters the brain. These three energies cause the humours to separate into the four humours, each having a pair of the qualities of the elements (fire: hot and dry; air: hot and wet; water: cold and wet; earth: cold and dry) forming the temperament of the body and they activate the powers (faculties) of the human soul. The powers of the human soul include the powers of the mineral soul (preserving shape or form), vegetal or plant soul (growth, reproduction and nutrition and its four sub-powers of attraction, digestion, retention and expulsion) and of the animal soul: motivation (the power of movement; concupiscent power; and irascible power) and sensation/perception: the five external powers seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching; and the five internal powers common sense, retention, estimation, memory and imagination). Imagination has two parts: sensitive (all animals) and rational (human being only). The rational soul is called the rational intellect when dealing with intelligibles. The rational intellect is divided into two parts: the theoretical intellect and the practical intellect. The theoretical intellect has four levels material, habitual, actual and acquired intellects. The acquired intellect can ascend to the level of the spiritual soul/intellect that is that of the prophets and saints. The theoretical intellect, directed upwards to receive intelligibles, is activated by the Active Intellect. The practical intellect, directed downwards and under the direction of the theoretical intellect, governs the body and moral development and healing.

Avicenna's Psychology A Textbook on Perennial Psychology

Journey towards uncovering the mysterious formula of the Elixir of Life, also known as the Philosophers Stone as found in Avicenna s Volume 5 of the Canon of Medicine: Pharmacopia. Avicenna's Canon of Medicine translated into Latin was the only medical textbook used in Europe for 600 years. Many readers will be familiar with Avicenna s use of the terms: Philosophers Stone and the Elixir of Life, which were made famous through the Harry Potter series. This formula is based on the humoural theory of hot, cold, wet, and dry and is said to give eternal youth. Avicenna gives you all the ingredients, their amounts and directions for how to prepare the Elixir of Life. Each ingredient is described in detail, accompanied by beautiful color illustrations. Find out for yourself if the Elixir works.

The Elixir of Life Also Known As The Philosophers' Stone: From The Formula In Avicenna's Canon of Medicine

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Samira Ardalan

Special Diet

Beginning with the self, we will learn the importance of using reason to control our desires (psychoethics); then the use of balanced reasoning in our relations with others (socioethics) and in our relation to Reality (theoethics). At the level of psychoethics, it means to be centered; it means we are able to use a balanced reason to control our passions. At the level of socioethics it means as spiritual warriors we deal with others in a fair and just manner, putting others and their needs before our own needs. In regard to our relationship with Reality, it means to put things in their proper place, to accept Reality as Trust-Giver and we as trustee. When we operate on these three levels in the manner described, and are confirmed by others for our sense of fairness we have won the greater struggle for moral healing. The Healing Work is the core of moral healing and the greater struggle. Moral healing works on two basic principles: preventing the development of vices (nahy an al-munkar) and commanding to virtues (amr bil maruf) in all three major areas of the self: how we think, how we act and how we feel. We begin with preventing the development of simple vices, and then how to manage compound imbalances and personality disorders using the Sign of God s Presence as it relates to traditional psychology. We end this part with learning how to command ourself to the three major virtues: wisdom, courage and temperance so that if we win the battle in the greater struggle, a sense of justice and fairness will be born that we will manifest it in our relations to self, others, and God. This is the study of the struggle or spiritual warfare of the monotheist to see the universe and all that is in it as aspects of the One God. The world view of monotheism (tawhid) forms the underlying basis for traditional psychology, in general, and its personality paradigm, in particular. The monotheist (hanif) regards the whole universe as a unity, as a single form, a single living and conscious thing, possessing will, intelligence, feeling, and purpose, revolving in a just and orderly system in which there is no discrimination no matter what one's gender, color, race, class, or faith be. All comes from God and returns to God.

Sufi Enneagram: Spiritual Warfare

In an exciting and lucid way, this work tells of the interaction of the life of the Messenger with the lives of 33 Companions, 13 of whom are women. These people are blessed with being able to participate in the Islamic movement in its making. This work will help students and adults alike to understand the early history of Islam through their lives. Vocabulary controlled, each story is followed by identifications and discussion for the classroom setting.

Muhammad's Companions: Essays on Those Who Bore Witness

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

The traditional personality paradigm, known as spiritual chivalry, arises out of observation of human nature and confirmation of the Quran and Sunnah. It is based on a three-fold division of the selfwhich is represented by a circle divided into nine equal points to show over, under or underdevelopment. This division is historically followed by the Judeo-Christian-Islamic traditions and can rightfully be called monotheistic psychology. The Islamic tradition measures the effect of the self in ethics. Thus the author calls traditional psychology, psychoethics and asserts modern psychology cannot afford to ignore this paradigm of the self, its development and learning theory.

Traditional Psychoethics and Personality Paradigm (God's Will Be Done, Vol. 1)

The various schools of law are compared and contrasted on all issues of the Shariah including individual worship (purification, prescribed prayer, prescribed fasting, prescribed charity and prescribed pilgrimage), economic issues including inheritance, endowments, wills and bequests, legal disability and social issues of marriage and divorce.

Encyclopedia of Islamic Law: A Compendium of the Major Schools

Kevin Reinhart

Critical Thinking and the Chronological Quran Book 14 in the Life of Prophet Muhammad

Year 24 of the Revelation Muharram 1, 11 AH-Rabi Awwal 12, 11 AH March 29 632 CE-June 8, 632 CE. The Messenger returns to God, peace and the mercy of God be upon him. The last Quranic chapter to be revealed is Chapter 110 which appears here in Book 24. Following the reports of his death, there is an extensive study on the Quranic verses/signs describing who Prophets, Messengers and/or OnesWho are Sent are along with a discussion of the verses/signs describing Women, Mothers, Wives, Daughters of the Prophets, Messengers and Ones Who are Sent and other Female Relations.

Critical Thinking and the Chronological Quran Book 24 in the Life of Prophet Muhammad

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