What is Hajj and who is a Hajji?

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Principles of Psychology and Education

Book "s possess :

Gholam Ali Afrooz, PhD

Professor of Psychology Education

University of Tehran

2006

Acknowledgements

First and foremost, I should thank Allah for granting me the chance of writing this booklet for the benefits of English speaking communities throughout the world.

I am most grateful to my very dear brother and learned colleague Mr. Ali Aminnia, Dip T. E., D. Litt for his valuable assistance in helping me to prepare the English version of this work.

I wish also to express my thanks and appreciation to my dear brother Dr. Namakforoosh for having this work published in its English version for a worldwide distribution.

May Allah bless them all.

To:

All learned thinkers and

broadminded researchers

A Hajji Disposition

A psycho-educational perspective

�Therein are clear signs � the station of Abraham, and whosoever enters it is in security. It is the duty of all men towards God to come to the House a pilgrim, if he is able to make his way there. As for the unbeliever, God is All-sufficient needing no beings.� The House of Imran 3:97

Here I am, O Lord, at Your service,

Here I am declaring that no associate do You have and I�m at your service,

The kingdom, the praise, and the blessing are all Yours,

No associate do You have and I�m at Your service.

The All-knowing

What is Hajj and who is a Hajji?

A psycho-educational perspective

Given the deeply and reflecting more inclusively on the philosophy of existence, hypothetical principles of religious values, and all the �must� and �must not� articles of a belief system, one arrives at the fact that the Creator of the reviving world and Controller of the world of living has created mankind for a purpose. All programmes and methods of an individual exaltation of self and deliverance of this noblest of all creatures who is worthy of being His viceroyalty on earth in this transitory life, are destined to be balanced on man�s innate disposition and his nature.

In other words, in a worldview scope of Islam and Quranic culture, all �religiously devised must and must not� articles are squarely balanced on the innate disposition, reason, and on sound judgment of the one with whom the power of reason and thinking; and the competence of discernment and choice are entrusted.

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