Activating Faith: What is an Ideal Muslim Personality

Muhammad Fakharuddin
12 min readJul 15, 2023
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If we look through Quran, there are certain themes that are repeated of what qualities a believer should possess; it is not more like how one should act in situations but a believer whose root is strong and based on faith develop these attributes as fruits of his character.

If we want to summarize all the qualities under one umbrella we can lump them into an ideology of anti-earth, as human beings we are the perfect mix of soul and body, one being transcendental and one trying to get attached to the earth; the Soul is attracted to the beauty of creator and find peace and happiness after getting close to its originator while the body is constantly trying to fill its appetite by gathering more of the earth ( materialism ) be it wealth, a bigger place to live, large circle of friend and family and its not happy of the fact with how much it has.

Anti-earther is the one who has realized that the value of earth — and what it contains, is not more than a wing of a mosquito ( hadith ), so he has perfect control of his thoughts and desire for that earth dweller anything worthy of its time is to get acquainted with the will of the creator; the earth is a…

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