On Disciplining the Soul Ramadan is not your traditional do-gooder

is not your traditional do-gooder

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in which he traveled the Islamic world with a team of researchers to investigate the diversity of Muslim societies abroad

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On Disciplining the Soul Ramadan is not your traditional do-gooderThe spiritual life in Islam begins with riyadat al nafs, the inner warfare against the ego. Distracted and polluted by worldliness, the lower self has a tendency to drag the human creature down into arrogance and vice. Only by a powerful effort of will can the sincere worshipper achieve the purity of soul which enables him to attain God's proximity. This translation of two chapters from The Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya' 'Ulum al Din)