Spiritual Intelligence (SI): A Quranic Approach

It was designed to define or “rate” the intelligence of humans based on their mental capacity. Despite the efforts made to produce global models of spiritual intelligence reflecting diverse beliefs, values and cultures, they fail to understand the depth of religious and cultural differences. The Qur...

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Main Authors: Bensaid, Benaouda, Machouche, Saleh
Format: Proceeding Paper
Language:English
English
Published: 2011
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description It was designed to define or “rate” the intelligence of humans based on their mental capacity. Despite the efforts made to produce global models of spiritual intelligence reflecting diverse beliefs, values and cultures, they fail to understand the depth of religious and cultural differences. The Quranic special insight into developing spiritual competencies makes this issue an extremely interesting and vitally critical topic in need of analysis. This paper sheds light on a number of issues on spiritual intelligence according to the Quran, and seeks to develop a competency-based criterion for it. What is meant by ‘spiritually intelligent’ and what does spiritual intelligence look like? What are the spiritual qualities and revealing indicators of spiritual intelligence? What are the fundamental goals, defining characteristics and structure of spiritual intelligence according to the Quran? What are the spiritual qualities and revealing indicators of spiritual intelligence? What controls the course of spiritual perfection? This paper attempts to define a number of major headings on spiritual intelligence according to the Quran, and seeks to develop a competency-based criterion for spiritual intelligence. This paper furthermore provides several illustrations that effectively highlight the Quranic perspective with regards to the understanding and consequent application of spiritual intelligence as found in the stories of Cain and Abel, Prophet Ibrahim and Prophet Joseph.
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spelling iium-277132013-02-13T23:04:30Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/27713/ Spiritual Intelligence (SI): A Quranic Approach Bensaid, Benaouda Machouche, Saleh BP160 General works on Islam It was designed to define or “rate” the intelligence of humans based on their mental capacity. Despite the efforts made to produce global models of spiritual intelligence reflecting diverse beliefs, values and cultures, they fail to understand the depth of religious and cultural differences. The Quranic special insight into developing spiritual competencies makes this issue an extremely interesting and vitally critical topic in need of analysis. This paper sheds light on a number of issues on spiritual intelligence according to the Quran, and seeks to develop a competency-based criterion for it. What is meant by ‘spiritually intelligent’ and what does spiritual intelligence look like? What are the spiritual qualities and revealing indicators of spiritual intelligence? What are the fundamental goals, defining characteristics and structure of spiritual intelligence according to the Quran? What are the spiritual qualities and revealing indicators of spiritual intelligence? What controls the course of spiritual perfection? This paper attempts to define a number of major headings on spiritual intelligence according to the Quran, and seeks to develop a competency-based criterion for spiritual intelligence. This paper furthermore provides several illustrations that effectively highlight the Quranic perspective with regards to the understanding and consequent application of spiritual intelligence as found in the stories of Cain and Abel, Prophet Ibrahim and Prophet Joseph. 2011 Proceeding Paper NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/27713/1/Spiritual_Intelligence%5B.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/27713/4/spiritual_intelligence.pdf Bensaid, Benaouda and Machouche, Saleh (2011) Spiritual Intelligence (SI): A Quranic Approach. In: The Annual International Quranic Conference 2011, 11 - 12 Jan 2011, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Unpublished)
spellingShingle BP160 General works on Islam
Bensaid, Benaouda
Machouche, Saleh
Spiritual Intelligence (SI): A Quranic Approach
title Spiritual Intelligence (SI): A Quranic Approach
title_full Spiritual Intelligence (SI): A Quranic Approach
title_fullStr Spiritual Intelligence (SI): A Quranic Approach
title_full_unstemmed Spiritual Intelligence (SI): A Quranic Approach
title_short Spiritual Intelligence (SI): A Quranic Approach
title_sort spiritual intelligence (si): a quranic approach
topic BP160 General works on Islam
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/27713/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/27713/1/Spiritual_Intelligence%5B.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/27713/4/spiritual_intelligence.pdf