خلاصه ماشینی:
In this issue we will study the ways the Qur’an and hadiths have treated the process of self-development and described man’s effort and struggle to achieve piety and spirituality.
1. Spirituality as combat with the self: According to this approach, self-building is an internal battle against the enemy within.
” The Apostle of God was asked: “What is the greater struggle?” He replied: “To fight one’s own self.
” (29:6) According to many exegetes of the Qur’an, this striving or struggle (jihad) which has been mentioned here is a spiritual jihad.
”(29:5) This concept of meeting Allah (SWT) is also a spiritual concept and so it is consistent with the following verse i.
” (29:69) To fight an internal enemy is the greater struggle because it is more difficult.
Spiritual problems are described as illness and so we need to treat ourselves with special medicines.
’ Thus, we can understand that having a pure and healthy heart is so important that someone like Prophet Abraham, the father of all monotheistic religions, asks God for it.
In Nah al-Balaghah, sermon 388, Imam Ali says: AT 9 0A' M , AT 9 , GU' 01 9 Q R*% M 0A' M 36 ‘One of the catastrophes that may happen to a person is poverty, but more difficult than poverty is illness.
What a narrow path it is for whom You do not guide, and what a clear path it is for whom you have guided!”6 Conclusion: In this part we have discussed spirituality or the process of self-building as a kind of battle, medicine and as a journey.