The insistence of heavenly religions, religious leaders, and scholars of morals on self-recognition and self-awareness is entirely a guidance to this innate and rational truth. The Holy Qur’an regards forsaking the soul as the requisite for forsaking Allah and as the punishment of this sin: ‘And be not like those who forsook Allah, so He…
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‘…Those who forsook Allah, so He made them forsake…
‘…Those who forsook Allah, so He made them forsake their own souls… (59:19).’ An inseparable relation exists between knowing one’s self and knowing Allah and also between forsaking one’s self and Allah’s forsaking. The reality of “forsaking oneself” and “self-alienation” in the Islamic culture is this very matter that a person forgets his human identity…
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