Spiritual strength: taqwa(God conscious) and ihsan

This paper highlights that Islam, iman and ihsan as three major concepts of the religion of Islam. They are built on each other like tiers, each one logically leading to the next. iman represents the cognitive and belief system, islam the behavioral and practical and ihsan the spiritual pinnacle or...

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Main Author: Abdullah, Fatimah
Format: Proceeding Paper
Language:English
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Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/37650/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/37650/1/LEAD_Programme_1_Nov_2012.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/37650/2/Invitation_to_Dr_Fatimah.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/37650/3/spiritual_strength-LEAD.pdf
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description This paper highlights that Islam, iman and ihsan as three major concepts of the religion of Islam. They are built on each other like tiers, each one logically leading to the next. iman represents the cognitive and belief system, islam the behavioral and practical and ihsan the spiritual pinnacle or the “fruit” of the earlier two steps. Islam contains esoteric and exoteric dimensions. The exoteric aspect concerns matters of practice including practical worshipping and rituals such as performing salat, fasting, paying zakat and hajj and social and moral teachings as manifestation of belief. Beyond and above these external, outward manifestation of religion there is a more profound, subtle and complicated dimension, namely the spiritual dimension of Islam.
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spelling iium-376502015-01-08T10:57:02Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/37650/ Spiritual strength: taqwa(God conscious) and ihsan Abdullah, Fatimah BF501 Motivation L Education (General) This paper highlights that Islam, iman and ihsan as three major concepts of the religion of Islam. They are built on each other like tiers, each one logically leading to the next. iman represents the cognitive and belief system, islam the behavioral and practical and ihsan the spiritual pinnacle or the “fruit” of the earlier two steps. Islam contains esoteric and exoteric dimensions. The exoteric aspect concerns matters of practice including practical worshipping and rituals such as performing salat, fasting, paying zakat and hajj and social and moral teachings as manifestation of belief. Beyond and above these external, outward manifestation of religion there is a more profound, subtle and complicated dimension, namely the spiritual dimension of Islam. 2012 Proceeding Paper NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/37650/1/LEAD_Programme_1_Nov_2012.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/37650/2/Invitation_to_Dr_Fatimah.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/37650/3/spiritual_strength-LEAD.pdf Abdullah, Fatimah (2012) Spiritual strength: taqwa(God conscious) and ihsan. In: International Leadership Capacity Building Workshop (LEAD) for Women Academic Leaders 2012, 17-20 December 2012, Kuala Lumpur. (Unpublished)
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Spiritual strength: taqwa(God conscious) and ihsan
title Spiritual strength: taqwa(God conscious) and ihsan
title_full Spiritual strength: taqwa(God conscious) and ihsan
title_fullStr Spiritual strength: taqwa(God conscious) and ihsan
title_full_unstemmed Spiritual strength: taqwa(God conscious) and ihsan
title_short Spiritual strength: taqwa(God conscious) and ihsan
title_sort spiritual strength: taqwa(god conscious) and ihsan
topic BF501 Motivation
L Education (General)
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/37650/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/37650/1/LEAD_Programme_1_Nov_2012.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/37650/2/Invitation_to_Dr_Fatimah.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/37650/3/spiritual_strength-LEAD.pdf