od through worship and good character.Psychologically analyzing Islam involves answering what the state, the faculties and the nature of human consciousness are. The nature of consciousness is usually always changing, never really the same, or at the same state. The different states of consciousness can be explained in four levels, the highest and closest to God is the ‘Self” (nafs), at peace and harmony. It is a level of total spirituality where the soul is most pure of human needs and wants. The next level is the ‘Intuitive Self’ which is the second highest state where it is close to the soul, but not fully pure. It is like a higher sense of awareness that doesn’t come from any other senses, but from our soul. The next is the ‘Blaming Self’ and then the ‘Compelling Self’ which are both like the good versus bad that are constantly at battle with each other. We usually are within one of these two zones, but are always going between one and the other. This is also where we battle with our actions, wants and desires and where we usually make most of our decisions. A person who is pious and close to God would usually be above these last two states and in a more intuitive state where the person is close to their soul. We use our faculties of consciousness, which are the body and it’s senses, the Self (nafs), the mind, the heart (qalb), and the Spirit (ruh). The compelling faculties are the body and senses, and they compel us to fulfill our desires. We might crave things that are forbidden according to Islam, or want material things because of our human wants and needs and it is the compelling and blaming self that pull our decisions to one or another. Our mind and intellect is our rational and reason that we use for thought. Our heart is not a mere physical muscle, but an organ of consciousness that lies in the middle between the bodies’ senses and the spirit, t...
