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Another group of students have finished their Happy in Islam assignments. Overall, I have had 474 students complete these assignments. 76.6% said that they were happied and 3% said that they were more calm. I am trying to see whether the Happy in Islam project can be modified to help develop spiritual values among students in Malaysian secondary schools. I would like to thank En. Fazrul Ismail from Total Success Sdn Bhd who is helping me with this extension of the Happy in Islam project. I am waiting for two colleagues to analyse some quantitative data to validate the qualitative data collected so far.
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Alhamdulillah, I did a workshop on Quality Leadership from an Islamic perspective at IIUM this morning. There were about 100 participants, mostly Arab students. I used the Happy in Islam framework (1. critical thinking, 2. removing doubts, 3. tafsir of Qur'an, 4. al qadar and 5. Allah's names and attributes). In comparison to Malaysian, Indonesian and Thai students, Arab students have a much better understanding of tafsir and of al qadar. Whereas counting Allah's blessings is quite a difficult exercise for non-Arab students, it seemed very easy for the Arab students who attended the workshop. However, when they filled out a questionnaire with the 99 names of Allah, it seemed apparent that most of the participants - like the majority of students who have done this exercise - had a negative perception of Allah's names and attributes. My general conclusion is that a lack of knowledge of Allah's names and attributes is the single most important conceptual obstacle that prevents people from getting closer to Allah and therefore developing the happiness and state of mind that results from a strong iman.
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