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ISSUE 24 OPINION

The spirit, ego and nafs

Ali Kurt24/10/201508/11/2016

Allah (swt) has granted human with a domain of legal and illegal and a will and freedom to choose between them. Human is tested with this faculty called nafs which...

OPINION

Unending war against lower self

Yunus Emre Pehlivan13/02/201523/03/2015

Our struggle against our nafs al-ammara (evil commanding lower self) is an everlasting fight that will only end when we die. Lower self (i.e. nafs al-ammara) always commands the evil....

ONLINE ARTICLES

Two Sides of Ego…(Ana)-2

Feride Karahan08/12/201116/04/2014

Yes, we all have egos and our egos are the keys… Keys of our being… Ego is not always something bad if you don’t feed it with evil. Ego in...

ONLINE ARTICLES

Egoism literally means excessive concern for oneself with or without exaggerated feelings of self-importance or the doctrine that individual self-interest is actual motive of all conscious action.[1] I don’t know...

ONLINE ARTICLES Psychology RELIGION & BELIEF

Man, Narcissism and The Creator

Salahaddin Özel12/01/201107/04/2011

Narcissism, a psychological term derived from Greek mythology, is defined in the dictionary as “the personality trait of egotism, vanity, conceit, or simple selfishness.” When you read the characteristics of...

ONLINE ARTICLES

What I’ve Learnt In Forty Years: “Four Phrases”

Hamza Berat13/07/201001/04/2011

Let us remember the famous scholar Imam Al-Nursi’s famous quotation from Mathnawi al-Nuriya: “I have learnt only four words and four phrases in forty years of my life and thirty...

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The spirit, ego and nafs

Unending war against lower self

Two Sides of Ego…(Ana)-2

Two Sides of Ego… [Ana]

Man, Narcissism and The Creator

What I’ve Learnt In Forty Years: “Four Phrases”