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Presented at the MSA workshop HongKong on October 7-8, 2016 by Professor Omar Hasan Kasule Sr. MB ChB (MUK), MPH (Harvard), DrPH (Harvard)
SWOT analysis
- Strengths relate to opportunities; Weaknesses relate to threats
- Internal threats worse than external threats; internal weaknesses open the door to external threats
- Internal threats: leadership crisis (diseases of leaders and followers)
Diseases of followers:
- Hypocrisy
- Insincerity
- Bad advice to leader
- Disloyalty
- Disobedience
- Excessive veneration of the leader.
Diseases of leaders
- Lack of responsibility and accountability:
- Lack of a sense of results/bottom line:
- Arrogance
- Putting people down:
- Mistrust and disloyalty:
- Lack of creativity:
- Inaccessibility:
- Poor human relations:
Solution of the leadership crisis by purification of the self, tazkiyat al nafs 1
- The essence of a person and personality is the nafs and not the physical body.
- The states of the nafs in increasing grades of perfection are: nafs ammarah (inclination to evil), nafs lawamah (conscience), and nafs kamilat (perfection)
- Nafs kaamilat manifests in 5 ways: nafs mulhamah (inspired); nafs qanu’ah(content), nafs mutma’inna(calm), nafs radhiyah(accepting), and nafs mardhiyat(accepted).
- Tazkiyat is based on ikhlaas (commitment), sidq(truth), istislam(surrender), and tadharu'u
- Tazkiyat is answering the call of Allah by sticking to the straight path, renouncing materialism, constant vigilance against shaitan.
- Tazkiyat can be achieved by dhikr, isti'adhat, istighfar, tasbiih, tahmiid, tahliil, dua,
- Tazkiyat can be achieved by physical ‘ibadat: salat, saum, and infaq.
- Models of tazkiyat: prophets, khulafa, scholars and the righteous
Solution of leadership diseases by Islamic self-education 1: contents
- Basic Islamic education (BIE) module (al tarbiyah al Islamiyah al asaasiyat)
- The halaqat (study circle) is a successful Islamic self-education system
- Intra-mural activities (Qur’an and hadith study)
- Extra-mural activities (voluntary social work)
- Nawafil & Zawaid
Solution of leadership diseases by Islamic self-education 2: themes of study
- Thematic Qur’an and hadith study related to daily life with time-space considerations
- Fiqh of daily life from a problem solving perspective and a maqasidi bird’s eye view approach
- Ma’athuraat for spiritual upliftment.
Solution of leadership diseases by Islamic self-education 3: Resources
- Qur’an in translation
- Riyadh al saalihin min hadith sayyid al mursaliin (Garden of the righteous from the words of the master of messengers) by Abu Zakariyah Yahya Ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi (631–676 A.H./1234–1277)
- Kitaab al adhkaar (The book of remembraces) by Imaam Nawawi.
Solution of leadership diseases by Islamic self-education 4: Resources
- Buluugh al maraam min adillat al ahkaam (Reaching the goals using legal evidence) by Abu al Fadhl Shihabuddin Ahmad bin Ali Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Ahmad al Kinani al Shafie Ibn Hajar al ‘Asqalani
- Ihya uluum al ddiin (The Revival of Islamic Sciences) by Hujjat al Islam Abu Hamid al Ghazzali (d. 505H). The book is divided into 4 quarters: (a) ‘Ibaadaat which deals with the duty of the Muslim to the Creator. (b) ‘Aadaat which deals with the duties of the Muslim to himself and to other creations. (c) Muhlikaat: which deals with blameworthy or condemned actions. (d) Munjiyaat which deals with praiseworthy actions.