Everything good connects back to Islam
I have been having many ‘eureka!’ moments lately, and I’ve realised that everything I learn, from any source, leads me back to Islam. Anything good and true brings me back to the belief system I was born into. How lucky and privileged I am, and how much reward for my parents, teachers, mentors and everyone who teaches me along the way! It all started with Malow’s Hierarchy of Needs. You can’t get to within a 5 mile radius of anything psychological without coming across this framework. Abraham Maslow was an American psychologist in the yester-century (1908-1970), and he posited that certain lower-level needs would have to be fulfilled for the person to reach the pinnacle of their existence, which is self-transcendence… i.e. living for more than simply oneself, finding purpose in life beyond one’s individual success, etc. So far so interesting. Here is the updated model of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (previous models stop at self-actualisation):- ( https://medium.com/better-hab
