03. Self-purification and development of personality

Source: Qur’an, Surah Al-Shams (91), ayah 9.

Published English excerpt: He has succeeded who purifies it,

Translations / status: Sahih International (English); Fateh Muhammad Jalandhari (Urdu). Arabic and both excerpts checked at the links below.

Relevance: The soul’s purification supplies a direct foundation for the self-purification characteristic in the syllabus.

Best use: personality development / reform.

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Source: Qur’an, Surah Al-Jumuah (62), ayah 2.

Published English excerpt: purifying them and teaching them the Book and wisdom

Translations / status: Sahih International (English); Fateh Muhammad Jalandhari (Urdu). Arabic and both excerpts checked at the links below.

Relevance: Prophetic teaching combines transmitted knowledge with moral formation; the verse does not reduce education to information alone.

Best use: personality development / reform.

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Source: Qur’an, Surah Al-Rad (13), ayah 11.

Published English excerpt: until they change what is in themselves.

Translations / status: Sahih International (English); Fateh Muhammad Jalandhari (Urdu). Arabic and both excerpts checked at the links below.

Relevance: The selected clause belongs to a statement about divine action and a people’s condition. It is not a formula blaming every victim for suffering.

Best use: personality development / reform.

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Source: Qur’an, Surah Al-Ankabut (29), ayah 45.

Published English excerpt: Indeed, prayer prohibits immorality and wrongdoing,

Translations / status: Sahih International (English); Fateh Muhammad Jalandhari (Urdu). Arabic and both excerpts checked at the links below.

Relevance: Prayer is linked explicitly to avoidance of wrongdoing, making ritual practice relevant to public character.

Best use: personality development / reform.

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Source: Qur’an, Surah Al-Baqarah (2), ayah 183.

Published English excerpt: that you may become righteous -

Translations / status: Sahih International (English); Fateh Muhammad Jalandhari (Urdu). Arabic and both excerpts checked at the links below.

Relevance: This purpose clause follows the prescription of fasting. Self-restraint is a relevant educational application, not an alternative translation.

Best use: personality development / reform.

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Source: Qur’an, Surah Al-Tawbah (9), ayah 103.

Published English excerpt: a charity by which you purify them and cause them increase,

Translations / status: Sahih International (English); Fateh Muhammad Jalandhari (Urdu). Arabic and both excerpts checked at the links below.

Relevance: The passage connects financial giving with purification. The Urdu excerpt is selected from the longer checked translation of the same clause.

Best use: personality development / reform.

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Source: Sahih al-Bukhari, no. 1; Revelation, Book 1.

Narrator: Umar ibn al-Khattab.

Published English excerpt: The reward of deeds depends upon the intentions and every person will get the reward according to what he has intended.

Grade: Sahih; included in the named Sahih collection.

Text sources: Arabic / English / numbering: Sunnah.com. Urdu: Islamic Urdu Books; wording checked, individual translator not independently established.

Parallel: Sahih Muslim, no. 1907a; wording may vary. Same counted entry.

Relevance: The emigration example distinguishes outward action from intended purpose. It supports examining the motives of personal and collective work.

Best use: personality development / reform.

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Source: Sahih Muslim, no. 91a; Faith, Book 1; chapter 39.

Narrator: Abdullah ibn Masud.

Published English excerpt: Pride is disdaining the truth (out of self-conceit) and contempt for the people.

Grade: Sahih; included in the named Sahih collection.

Text sources: Arabic / English / numbering: Sunnah.com. Published Urdu translation not verified; no substitute translation supplied.

Relevance: The context distinguishes attractive clothing from arrogance. Self-purification targets rejection of truth and contempt for people, not beauty itself.

Best use: personality development / reform.

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Source: Sahih al-Bukhari, no. 6114; Good Manners, Book 78; chapter 76.

Narrator: Abu Hurayra.

Published English excerpt: the strong is the one who controls himself while in anger.

Grade: Sahih; included in the named Sahih collection.

Text sources: Arabic / English / numbering: Sunnah.com. Urdu: Islamic Urdu Books; wording checked, individual translator not independently established.

Relevance: The comparison redirects strength from physical victory to restraint. It supplies a direct basis for emotional self-discipline.

Best use: personality development / reform.

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Source: Sahih al-Bukhari, no. 52; Belief, Book 2; chapter 39.

Narrator: Numan ibn Bashir.

Published English excerpt: There is a piece of flesh in the body if it becomes good (reformed) the whole body becomes good

Grade: Sahih; included in the named Sahih collection.

Text sources: Arabic / English / numbering: Sunnah.com. Published Urdu translation not verified; no substitute translation supplied.

Relevance: The larger report concerns lawful, unlawful and doubtful matters and identifies the heart. Its moral teaching is not a modern anatomical theory.

Best use: personality development / reform.

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Source: Sahih Muslim, no. 223; Purification, Book 2; chapter 1.

Narrator: Abu Malik al-Ashari.

Published English excerpt: Cleanliness is half of faith

Grade: Sahih; included in the named Sahih collection.

Text sources: Arabic / English / numbering: Sunnah.com. Published Urdu translation not verified; no substitute translation supplied.

Relevance: The Arabic term is purification and the collection places it in the context of ablution. Do not substitute the unverified slogan “cleanliness is part of faith.”

Best use: personality development / reform.

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Source: Sahih al-Bukhari, no. 1903; Fasting, Book 30; chapter 8.

Narrator: Abu Hurayra.

Published English excerpt: Whoever does not give up forged speech and evil actions,

Grade: Sahih; included in the named Sahih collection.

Text sources: Arabic / English / numbering: Sunnah.com. Urdu: Islamic Urdu Books; wording checked, individual translator not independently established.

Relevance: The full warning connects fasting with abandonment of false speech and evil action. This entry does not independently decide the juristic validity of a fast.

Best use: personality development / reform.

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Source: Ibn Kathir; Tafsir Ibn Kathir (Abridged).

Locator: Commentary on al-Shams 91:9–10.

Scholarly position / paraphrased argument: The commentary explains purification through obedience and removal of low character, while also recording a reading emphasizing the soul that God purifies.

Access / status: English abridged Tafsir inspected on Quran.com; compiler’s paraphrase, not a published translation quotation.

Relevance: Preserve both human moral effort and the exegetical qualification concerning divine action.

Related evidence: Reference 032.

Best use: personality development / reform.

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Source: Ibn Khaldun; Al-Muqaddimah.

Locator: Chapter VI, section 39, opening pedagogical argument.

Scholarly position / paraphrased argument: He argues that oppressive education encourages fear, concealment and dependence, obstructing the development of courage and good character.

Access / status: Franz Rosenthal’s English translation inspected in the MuslimPhilosophy digital reproduction; compiler’s paraphrase. Printed edition and pagination not verified.

Relevance: The pedagogical argument is cited, not the passage’s prejudicial generalization about Jews or its historical corporal-punishment rules.

Best use: personality development / reform.

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Source: Ibn Khaldun; Al-Muqaddimah.

Locator: Chapter VI, “The right attitude in scientific instruction”; opening three-stage method (web file Ch_6_36; displayed heading 56).

Scholarly position / paraphrased argument: Effective instruction proceeds from a general introduction to fuller explanation and then difficult details, taking account of the learner’s preparedness.

Exact English excerpt (Rosenthal): At first, (the teacher) presents (the student) with the principal problems within each chapter of a given discipline.

Access / status: Franz Rosenthal’s English translation inspected in the MuslimPhilosophy digital reproduction; compiler’s paraphrase. Printed edition and pagination not verified.

Relevance: Links personality development with pedagogical method; the website’s heading/file-number discrepancy is retained explicitly.

Best use: personality development / reform.

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Source: Abu Hamid al-Ghazali; Ihya Ulum al-Din, Book I: The Book of Knowledge.

Locator: Section V, first duty of the student.

Scholarly position / paraphrased argument: The student’s first duty is purification from low qualities that obstruct the proper reception of knowledge.

Access / status: Nabih Amin Faris’s English translation, Sh. Muhammad Ashraf, Lahore, digitized at Ghazali.org, inspected; compiler’s paraphrase. Edition/year and print pages not verified.

Relevance: Connects learning with self-purification.

Best use: personality development / reform.

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Source: Abu Hamid al-Ghazali; Ihya Ulum al-Din, Book I: The Book of Knowledge.

Locator: Section V, fourth duty of the teacher.

Scholarly position / paraphrased argument: Correction should be sympathetic rather than humiliating, since blunt reproach can undermine the learner’s moral receptivity.

Access / status: Nabih Amin Faris’s English translation, Sh. Muhammad Ashraf, Lahore, digitized at Ghazali.org, inspected; compiler’s paraphrase. Edition/year and print pages not verified.

Relevance: Use for character-forming education.

Best use: personality development / reform.

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