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Upon installation of the rooh (the term nafs is also used in the Quran), the non-living clay model sprang to life much like a lifeless computer springs to "life" when software is installed.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science PZ Myers none@example.com 2010
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Upon installation of the rooh (the term nafs is also used in the Quran), the non-living clay model sprang to life much like a lifeless computer springs to "life" when software is installed.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science PZ Myers none@example.com 2010
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* Jihad of the heart/soul (jihad bin nafs/qalb) - an inner struggle of good against evil in the mind, through concepts such as tawhid (the oneness of Allah (swt)).
Jihad JDsg 2007
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The sufi saints tried to cultivate what Qur'an calls nafs-e-mutmainna (the contented soul) and not nafs-e-ammarah
Indian Muslims 2009
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The final form of jihad is jihad an-nafs which is struggle by an individual to suppress his own ego in order to be closer to God and acceptable in His eyes.
Iran War Resolution May Be Passed Next Week « Antiwar.com Blog 2008
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All the "nafs" in the sufic interpretation that put kinks in our psychic wiring, preventing our "kundalini energy" from rising up the neurological wiring until enlightenment is achieved.
Sly and Arjuna Steven Barnes 2009
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At all times we have this struggle with our 'nafs' while we get to do with the world and its Layla.
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Even if, through the company of a Sheikh and a long life of spiritual exercises and efforts the "nafs" appear to have changed towards good, still do not be at ease with it and become unmindful of it.
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He found his freedom through annihilating himself and through self sacrifice: Thus when someone wishes to free himself from the cage of his 'nafs' and from Shaytaan, he will have to learn to become annihilated and to learn the process of self - annihilation from one who is annihilated in Allah.
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In other words, the 'nafs' will then find it easy to walk on the path of Divine pleasures.
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