Moral Healing through the Most Beautiful Names

 Moral Healing through the Most Beautiful Names :
"The Practice of Spiritual Chivalry" New,
[A5+] Large Paperback - 320 pages,
by Laleh Bakhtiar,
Published by I.T.P.G. Chicago,
Institute of Traditional Psychoethics & Guidance.




Description :

Moral Healing through the Most Beautiful Names : The Practice of Spiritual Chivalry - this work shows the traditional method of spiritual chivalry (futuwwah) of assuming the positive traits or virtues of God’s Most Beautiful Names (al-Asma w'al-Husna).


Known as moral self-healing (attaining muruwwah), it occurs psychologically through three stages referred to in this work as three parts :


   *** Part I. A translation of Imam al-Ghazali’s, may Allah be pleased with him, work on the Ninety-Nine Names, shows Theoethics, the Most Beautiful Names as only God can manifest them. This serves as the knowledge base.

   *** Part II. Psychoethics shows the traditional method of processing that knowledge.

   *** Part III. Socioethics shows the way to test the extent of having healed morally through our actions and improving our relations with others. Healing is effected through assuming God’s Most Beautiful Names to the extent of God’s Grace and what our own endeavour allow.



Synopsis :

Moral healing through assuming an individual spiritual warrior's portion of the 99 Most Beautiful Names (al-Asma w'al-Husna) is the major practice of the Sufi's who continuously self-examine their actions. The author explains the method in terms of  Theoethics, Psychoethics and Socioethics - Knowledge, Process and Action, as a spiritual warrior tries to become worthy of being of being the trustee of nature.


As the self becomes balanced, so the relationship to God and to all of nature including other human beings begins gaining balance. The image known in the West as the Enneagram - which the Sufi's call the sign of the presence of God (Wajh Allah). This serves as the inner guide to effect balance through Moral Healing.




Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar has a BA in History from Chatham College in Pennsylvania, an MA in Philosophy, an MA in Counseling Psychology and a Ph.D. in Educational Foundations. She is also a Nationally Certified Counselor.


Dr. Bakhtiar has been practicing Islam for over 30 years and is the author of many books on Islamic unity, architecture, psychology, psychoethics, and Moral Healing through the Enneagram and the 99 Most Beautiful Names of God. Dr. Bakhtiar has translated over 30 books on Islam and Islamic beliefs into English, and has lectured extensively in both religious and academic institutions. Her vocation as a practicing Muslim, psychologist, book publisher and editor and scholar gives her an indispensable role in the Muslim community.






Table of Contents :


---Preface,
---Overview,
------Traditional Ethics,
------The Relative Self,
------The Process of Moral Healing,
------Accepting the Covenant,
------Accepting the Trust,
------Balancing the Natural Disposition by Disciplining the False Self or Ego Developed through the Nurturing Process,
------Knowledge of the Relative Self leads to Knowledge of God,
------Healing Techniques through The Most Beautiful Names,
---------Preparation,
---------Remembrance or Invocation,
---------The Science of Letters,
---------The Science of Numbers,

Part [1]. Nourishment of Spiritual Warriors : Knowledge of God Through Theoethics,
---The 99 Most Beautiful Names of God,


Part [II]. The Process of Moral Healing for Spiritual Warriors Through Psychoethics,

---Chapter 1. Moral Healing of the Attraction to pleasure function of the Self through acquiring Temperance,
---Chapter 2. Moral Healing of the avoidance of Harm/Pain function of the Self through acquiring Courage,
---Chapter 3. Moral Healing of the Cognitive function of the Self through acquiring Wisdom,
---Chapter 4. Centering the Self with Justice.


Part [III]. The Actions of Spiritual Warriors : Proof of Moral Healing Through Socioethics,

---Chapter 1. Social Awakening by emptying the Self of everything but the Desire to grow closer to God,
---Chapter 2. Entering the Creative Process,
---Chapter 3. Counselling to the Positive and trying to prevent the Development of the Negative,
---Chapter 4. Developing the Moral Reasonableness of a Religiously cultured Monotheist,
---Chapter 5. Using their Spiritual power to Help others,
---Chapter 6. God's Trustee,
---Chapter 7. Perfecting their instinctive Perception through noble Character Development,
---Chapter 8. Perfecting their instinctive Motivation through their Actions,
---Chapter 9. Moving towards Servanthood by Serving God's Creation,
---Chapter 10. Serving as a Guide and Teacher to Others.

---Conclusion.


---Appendices ;
-----A. List of the Order of the 99 Most Beautiful Names,
--------Translation, Transliteration, Quality and Number Symbolism (West and East),
-----B. List of the Translation of the 99 Most Beautiful Names,
--------The Order, Division and Summary Description of Role in Theoethics, Psychoethics and Socioethics,
-----C. List of the Number Symbolism (East) of the 99 Most Beautiful Names,
--------Translation, Transliteration, Quality, Number Symbolism (West), Division and Elemental Properties,
-----D. List of the Quality of the 99 Most Beautiful Names,
--------Translation, Transliteration, Number Symbolism (West and East), Divisions and Elemental Properties and Elements,
-----E. List of the Translation of the 99 Most Beautiful Names,
--------Their Letters and Number Symbolism (East) and their Elemental Properties,
-----F. List of the Translation of the 99 Most Beautiful Names,
--------Their Letters and Number Symbolism (West) and their Elemental Properties,
-----G. List of the Transliteration of the 99 Most Beautiful Names,
--------Their Invocation (Dhikr) with an index to Special Properties.


---Notes,
---Bibliography,
---Index.





Also  see Imam al-Ghazali's 99 Beautiful Names of Allah,

Homepage for Sufism.
Also see related books God & Tawhid,





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