Br. Naeem Saloojee's slides from his Understanding The Self halaqa session.

1. Tazkiyah
Some thoughts...

2. Surely Allah does not change the condition of a people until they change their own condition” (18:11). What
better way to change your condition than to know what your condition is in the first place? The aim of this
session is to enable participants to examine themselves in a way no one else can and identify their
successes and their shortcomings as individuals so as to change for the better.

3. Sign 1 - Gifts

4. Sign 2 - Power

7. Sign 3 - Proofs

8. Sign 4 - Evidence

9. Happiness!
.
Happiness is the attainment of pleasure and delight by the acquisition of that
which every ghariizah (natural inclination) longs for and desires in accord with its
own nature.

10. Happiness and Purpose

11. What are we told?

12. Happiness and Purpose
The purpose of pencil
Happiness varies in quality and intensity
What is your purpose?
Then why is it so hard?

13. 51:56

14. Stage 1 - Traditional
‘Aql
Limbs

15. Stage 1 - Problems

16. What is missing?

17. Stage 2 - Islam - Basic
Limbs
‘Aql
Qalb

18. 26:87-89

19. 22:46
17:72

20. Stage 3 - Intermediate
Nafs
Qalb
Ruh

21. 7:179

22. The Problem: Mad Cow

23. The Problem: A Solution?

24. The Problem: THE Solution
A healthy diet of ‘ilm and mujaahadah.

25. ‘ilm - Shaykh Mokhtar
Shaykh Mokhtar Maghraoui is one of the most
respected scholars in North America. He is a regular
teacher at national and regional conferences
throughout the continent, but is best known for his
enlightening spiritual retreats and seminars that
empower Muslims in their quest for nearness to the
Allah.
Shaykh Mokhtar is thoroughly versed in both the
external and internal Islamic sciences, including fiqh
(jurisprudence), uṣūl al-fiqh (legal theory), al-qawāʿid
al-fiqhiyya (legal maxims), al-maqāṣid al-sharʿiyya (the
higher objectives of the shari’ah), uṣūl al-ḥadīth
(theory of hadith), ‘ilm al-rijāl (narrator critique), sīra
(the prophetic biography), and ʿaqīda (Islamic belief
and creed), and tazkiya (Islamic spirituality).
He also holds a doctorate that joined between the
fields of physics and engineering.

26. Sources
www.tazkiya.me
Adirondac retreat 2000

27. mujaahdah
Thought experiment
Cognitive dissonance
Supporting Structure
My Four - S - Q - K - I

28. Beeminder
Commitment Contracts
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29. Tazkiyah
Final thoughts...