Thinking and doing

2. Thinking and Doing
Presented By
Mamoona shahzad
MPhil/2012-27
June 4,2013.
Presented To
DR.MAHAR
MUHAMMAD SAEED
AKHTAR

3. Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss
events; Small minds discuss
people.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
US diplomat & reformer

4. “You have to allow a certain amount
of time in which you are doing
nothing in order to have things
occur to you, to let your mind
think.”
Mortimer Adler (1902-2001)
American Philosopher, Educator, Editor

5. According to dictionary
• “to exercise the mind in active way, to form
connected ideas and using thought or rational
judgment about things”.

6. • Thinking involve in logical reasoning, making
decisions and beliefs of an individual. Beliefs system
is actually set of perspectives, thoughts, words and
actions which help us to find what we are?
• Example

8. • Thinking is the way that the mind
makes sense of the world.
• There is no way to understand
anything except through thinking.

9. Thinking tells us:
 what there is
 what is happening
 what our problems are
 what our options are
 what threatens us
 what is important
 what is unimportant
 who our friends are
 who our enemies are
 what our “history” is
 who we are

10. Red Thinking:
Higher order executive
functioning.
Thinking that analyzes,
assesses and improves green
Thinking.
Green Thinking:
Instinctive, automatic,
spontaneous thinking.
Unconsciously guided

11. To learn anything,
you must actively bring it into
your thinking.

12. Your Thinking
can either
Trap
You
Free
You
Hold you
Hostage within
uncritically
held
beliefs
Open your
mind
to new ways
of thinking
Trap or free

13. Philosophers VViieewwss aabboouutt TThhiinnkkiinngg
• AAccccoorrddiinngg ttoo tthhee PPllaattoonniisstt
Thinking is either a dialogue in the soul
involving mental words or A spiritual
activity of inspecting and discerning the
natures and interrelations.

14. • AAccccoorrddiinngg ttoo AArriissttootteelliiaanniissmm
Thinking is an act of the intellect in which a
thing's essence, or intelligible form.

15. Conceptualists
• Thinking is an activity of bringing
concepts or ideas before the mind, these
being either innate and applicable to the
world (Leibniz, Descartes) or else formed
by abstraction from sense experiences
and thus actually sharing the abstract
features of those experiences (Locke).

16. AAccccoorrddiinngg ttoo CCooggnniittiivviissttss
That the way people think impacts their
behavior and therefore a behavior cannot be in
and of itself.
• Behavior is the result of our
thoughts and attitude.

17. CCoonntt……
• AAccccoorrddiinngg ttoo tthhee ppssyycchhoollooggiiccaall
nnoommiinnaalliisstt ((HHoobbbbeess))
Thinking is literally a dialogue in
the soul (or better in the head)
involving the use of verbal
Content/images, or mental
words.

18. Doing

19. DDooiinngg……
• The word “Doing” seems to be more
concerned with actions, behaviors and
overt activities which can be directly
observed, physically performed by the
individuals. Doing is something that
helps us to gain experience with life, and
to test the insights about.

20. • A life spent
making mistakes
is not only more
honorable, but
more useful than
a life spent doing
nothing. George Bernard
Shaw

21. TThhiinnkkiinngg aanndd DDooiinngg
• “Thoughts leads on to
purpose, purpose leads
on to actions, actions
forms habits, habits
decide character and
character fixes our
destiny” (Theologian,
1809-1894).

22. TThhiinnkkiinngg aanndd DDooiinngg
““TThhee CCoommppoonneennttss
ooff tthhee DDeeeenn--ee--
IIssllaamm””

23. IIssllaamm iiss ccoommppoosseedd ooff ttwwoo
ccoommppoonneennttss
• IInnnneerr CCoommppoonneenntt:: BBeelliieeffss
• OOuutteerr CCoommppoonneenntt:: AAccttiioonnss ((WWoorrkkss,,
DDeeeeddss))..

24. BBEELLIIEEFFSS AANNDD AACCTTIIOONNSS
IINN QQUURR’’AANN OO SSUUNNNNAAHH
TThhee QQuurr’’aann rreeffeerrss ttoo tthhee BBeelliieevveerrss
aass
"Those who believe and do good deeds."
PPrroopphheett MMuuhhaammmmaadd ((SSAAWW)) ssaaiidd::
"God does not look at your faces or possessions,
but He looks at your hearts and deeds.

25. BBeelliieeffss aanndd AAccttiioonnss……
• Islamic Beliefs are like the roots of
a tree (invisible)
• They are in the thoughts and
mind.
• They are not visible to anyone.
• All Beliefs altogether make up the
foundation of Deen-e-Islam.

26. CCoonntt……
• Belief is the foundation of the tree
of faith, without which it dies.
Good works are the trunk and
branches of this tree; if there were
no branches and only a root, there
would in essence be no tree. The
more the branches, the more
perfect the tree is.

27. IIssllaammiicc PPeerrssppeeccttiivvee
• According to Islamic point of
view the relationship between our
thoughts and actions or
“TThhiinnkkiinngg aanndd DDooiinngg““ is very
strong as well as important; they
must be aligned with each other.

28. • This is especially important to think about
considering how God speaks of
comprehension and thinking in the Quran.
Tafakkur تفكر is the reflexive form of the
root فكر , which means to reflect, to think
and speculate.
• . Tafakkur means to reflect, think over and
consider.

29. It is mentioned in the Quran 17 times. In Surah
Al-Rum verse 8 Allah says:
Do they not contemplate within themselves? Allah has
not created the heavens and the earth and what is
between them except in truth and for a specified term.
And indeed, many of the people, in the meeting with
their Lord, are disbelievers.

30. • The word for “Intellect” is ‘Aql ,عقل
meaning sense, reason, understanding,
comprehension, insight, rationality,
mind, intellect, intelligence. The verb
form that we will see commonly used in
Qur’an is عقل
• In the 49 references in the Qur’an, God
often speaks of the disbelievers who do
not comprehend..

31. In Surah Baqarah verse 276, Allah says:
And when they meet those who believe, they say,
“We have believed”; but when they are alone with
one another, they say, “Do you talk to them about
what Allah has revealed to you so they can argue
with you about it before your Lord?” Then will you
not reason?

32. The daily motivator by Ralph
Martson
•
• Tuesday, September 27, 2011
• Thoughts and actions
• What you do makes you better at what you think. What you think
makes you more effective at what you do.
• Take action, after thinking through the consequences that are likely to
come from that action. Put some thought into what you intend to do,
and then get busy doing it.
• Express your best, most authentic thoughts with your actions. Focus and
empower your actions with your thoughts.
• Balance the informed intelligence of your thoughts with the practical
effectiveness of your actions. Thought without action is not worth
much, and action without thought can be even worse.
• True excellence results from the synergy of thought and action. Both are
vitally necessary, and neither one is very beneficial without the other.
• Consider, question, observe, evaluate, intend, plan, and then do. Think
about what you’re doing, and then get busy doing what you think.
• — Ralph Marston

33. RReeffeerreenncceess::
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muslim/
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muslim/
• Victori and Lockhart (1995). Presented beliefs as essentially stable
factors which influence action in a cause and effect relationship.
Retrieved from
http://azizaizmargari.wordpress.com/2011/08/27/the-critical-thinking-
muslim/
• Reichard, G. (2010). Change Your Beliefs; Change Your Life. Retrieved
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beliefs/.
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