Islam

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Islam Self Growth
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What I shall be talking about

• What is so crucial about Self Growth?
• Questions are the Key
• Quotes from the Infallibles
• Recommended Reading

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What is so crucial about self growth?
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What is so crucial about self growth?

• In the Name of God,
• Most Merciful, Most Compassionate.
• By the Soul and Him who perfected it,
• And inspired it as to what is wrong and what is
  right for it,
• Indeed, success is for him who purifies it,
• And truly, failure is for him who corrupts it.
• - Surah Ash-Shams (917 10)

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Questions are the Key

• What steers the Course of our Life?
• How do we steer the Course of our Life?
• What is the One Dominant Factor that determines
  the choices that we make?
• Answer
• The Voice Within...

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Questions are the Key

• The 2 poles of voices-
• Positive
• Negative
• The 2 qualities of voices-
• True
• False
• The 2 kinds of voices-
• Questions
• Affirmations
• Questions gt Affirmations

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Questions are the Key

• Example of Positive Affirmation
• I am skilled at Arithmetic
• Example of Negative Affirmation
• I am a worthless person
• Example of Negative Question
• Why is my life miserable?
• Example of Positive Question
• What can I do now to improve my life?

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Quotes from the Infallibles

• Whoever does not take into account of oneself
  every day is not one of us
• Imam Musa ibn Jaafar Al-Kazim (AS).
• The unexamined life is not worth living
• Socrates.

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Quotes from the Infallibles

• Adversities often bring your good qualities to
  the forefront.
• Imam Ali ibn Abi Thalib (AS).
• Web Source
• http//www.ezsoftech.com/islamic/infallible2.asp

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Quotes from the Infallibles

• Success is the result of foresight and
  resolution, foresight depends upon deep thinking
  and planning, and the most important factor of
  planning is to keep your secrets to yourself.
• Imam Ali ibn Abi Thalib (AS).
• Web Source
• http//www.ezsoftech.com/islamic/infallible2.asp

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Quotes from the Infallibles

• Like your body, your mind also gets tired and
  fatigued in such case find educational
  diversions for it.
• Imam Ali ibn Abi Thalib (AS).
• Web Source
• http//www.ezsoftech.com/islamic/infallible2.asp

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Quotes from the Infallibles

• One who adopts patience will never be deprived
  of success though the success may take a long
  time to reach him.
• Imam Ali ibn Abi Thalib (AS).
• Web Source
• http//www.ezsoftech.com/islamic/infallible2.asp

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Recommended Reading

• Self Building by Ayatollah Ibrahim Amini
• Light Within Me by Allamah Mutahhari, Tabatabai
  Imam Khomeini
• Bagaimana Membangun Keperibadian Anda by Khalil
  Al-Musawi
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by
  Stephen R Covey
• The 8th Habit by Stephen R Covey
• Good to Great by Jim Collins

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In Conclusion

• Knowledge is very superficial which remains only
  on your tongue the intrinsic merit and value of
  knowledge is that you act upon it.
• Imam Ali ibn Abi Thalib (AS).