We have seen in article https://secondriseofislam.blogspot.com/2015/10/soul-conscious-and-its-training.html
that everything has been created in pairs; human body and soul also have been
created as a pair. Human soul is actually human conscious. Human body contains
potentially all those qualities which its conscious contains. The more human
body actualizes qualities contained by its conscious, the more it can act like
its conscious. This world is meant for human conscious’ trial; our body acts
according to dictations of our soul/conscious. It means when human body
expires, human conscious moves into the next world.
Human body is a reflection of human soul/conscious;
our body is just like our conscious sees it. It means social development of
human body is actually development of human conscious. It is a misconception to
believe that requirements of development
of human soul/conscious are something different from requirements of social
development of human body. Actually, human soul/conscious develops through
social development of human body. Our
soul/Conscious acts through our body, feels through our body, perceives through
our body, thinks through our body, observes and experiences through our body,
acquires knowledge and skills through our body, develops through our body and
degenerates through our body. It means IF we want to develop our soul/conscious,
we have to develop our body socially; and if we want to develop our body
socially, we have to develop our conscious. In other words, development of human conscious/soul is in fact social
development of human conscious/soul, which is carried out through social
development of human body. It means human
conscious/soul may be trained by training human body.
Our conscious and body are inextricably inseparable as long
as we are alive. Our conscious/soul
is AWARENESS of all human body’s factors like intellect, knowledge, information,
ideas, skills, observations, experiences, feelings, perceptions, emotions, and,
in short, AWARENESS of all that we have in our life. In other words, nature/reality
of ‘ME’/Conscious is the AWARENESS of all that I have in my life. In
addition to AWARENESS, my Conscious/ ‘ME’ has another quality; it has ‘WILL’ to
adopt the good or the bad knowingly that they are good or bad. All other factors like intellect, knowledge,
information, ideas, skills, observations, experiences, feelings, and perceptions
impact our Emotions which further impact our soul/conscious/ ‘ME’, but decision
making is the job of Conscious/Soul/ ‘ME’; Conscious/ME may reject the impact
of Emotions and decide to adopt the good or the bad. Therefore, in order to train/develop human conscious,
we have to manage all body’s factors like intellect, knowledge, information, ideas,
skills/capabilities, feelings, perceptions, experiences, observations, and emotions.
In other words, in order to train/develop an
individual and make him/her socially a useful individual of an Islamic state,
we have to develop him/her into a personality whose intellect, knowledge, ideas,
skills/capabilities are developed on the basis of Islamic principles, and whose
feelings, perceptions, information, observations, experiences, emotions and, in
short, all internal and external stimuli likely to impact Conscious/ ‘ME’ are required to be managed so
that Conscious/ ‘ME’ may be enabled to adopt the good on the basis of Islam. For
the purpose of social development of an individual, the stimuli likely to
impact human personality may be divided into internal stimuli and external
stimuli. Emotions are internal stimuli; all the other body’s factors like
intellect, knowledge, information, ideas, feelings, perceptions, observations
and experiences may be called external stimuli because all these factors are
induced by external environment. Therefore, in order to train/ develop an
individual socially internal and external tools may be employed.
Regarding internal stimuli i.e. emotions, we have seen
in article https://secondriseofislam.blogspot.com/2012/06/racial-traits-and-spiritual-elevation.html
that human emotions/traits are
neither good nor bad in their essence; it is the human choice of the
situations, and kind and magnitude of these traits to manifest in those
situations, which makes a human deed good or bad. One tool to tame human
emotions is Love for Allah. For details plz see article https://secondriseofislam.blogspot.com/2012/02/love-basis-of-human-deeds.html.
Regarding external stimuli like
intellect, knowledge and ideas, we have seen in the article https://secondriseofislam.blogspot.com/2012/07/individuals-social-development.html
that, in order to be a beneficial member of a society, individual has to be law
abiding and intellectually believing in social/moral values adopted by the
society. As major sources of social/moral values to be believed in and
practiced by a beneficial Muslim member of Islamic society are Quran and
Sunnah, a Muslim may become a beneficial member of Islamic society by
practicing and believing intellectually in social/moral values as enshrined in
Quran and Sunnah. For this purpose, Quranic studies must be given prime
importance in all educational institutions where students may study other
subjects of their choice but Quranic studies must be compulsory at all levels
of education. Quranic studies teachers must be highly qualified not only in
Quran studies but also in other subjects of their choice. They should be able
to resolve all paradoxes a student may confront with while studying Quran. As
the process of individual’s social development starts entering its logical
phase since adulthood period, it would be more appropriate that Quranic studies
are started to be imparted since adulthood age. In this way a student
after completing fourteen or sixteen years education, would be enough imbued
with Islamic social and moral values because he would be able to believe
intellectually in such social and moral values and resultantly much more
enabled to practice such values to become a beneficial member of an Islamic
society. At the higher levels of studies, Quranic thinking must be focused. For
the purpose such an educational and training environment is required wherein
every student may be persuaded and led to initiate her/his own process of
thinking.
Regarding other external stimuli
like observations, experiences, feelings, perceptions and information, it may
be appreciated these stimuli are pertinent to social, political and economic
institutions; customs, traditions, ethics, morals, and laws prevailing in the
society. In order to manage these external stimuli, we have to modify and build
social, political, economic institutions as well as customs, traditions, ethics,
morals, and laws in such a manner which may help an individual’s personality
develop in a way suited to Islamic injunctions, values and morals.
We may conclude that development of human soul/conscious/ 'ME' is actually social development of human conscious/soul which is carried out through social development of human body. For purpose
of social development of an individual in an Islamic society, we need to
develop an environment in which individual may be able to tame his/her emotions
through sheer Love for Allah; solve all paradoxes in Islam through system of
education and training, and refurbish his/her intellect, knowledge and ideas on
the basis of Islam; and- through conducive social, political and economic
institutions, values, ethics, customs, traditions and morals- make her/his
observations, experiences, feelings, perceptions and information conducive to
adopt what is good on the basis of
Islam.
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