What This Book Offers

1. Six Chapters: Covering worldview premises, the human model, the purpose of becoming, the nine laws, higher-order models, and method and limits.

2. Nine Interacting Laws: Not successive stages: truthfulness discloses, striving embodies, reflection gives insight, love moves, and wholehearted turning centres the heart on God.

3. The Nearness Equation: A non-numerical relational framework connecting Actualised Perfection with the direction of one’s response to truth and servanthood.

4. Four Higher-Order Models: Including the Integrative Needs Model—an interwoven network rather than a ladder—and the Model of the Four Dimensions.

5. Engagement with Western Theories: Methodical examination of Maslow, Self-Determination Theory, and Flow Theory.

6. Reference Tools: A glossary of approximately 161 terms and seven indexes.

Who This Book Is For

1. Scholars and Students: Those seeking precise formulations of the project’s concepts.

2. Teachers, Editors, and Translators: Those working with the project’s books and educational materials.

3. Readers of No Limits or The Immortal Self: Those seeking the governing reference behind their ideas.

4. Readers of Islamic Thought and Psychology: Those interested in dialogue between the Islamic worldview and contemporary psychology.

Project Context and Academic Standing

The governing reference text for the project: where definitions differ between books, this is the point of reference. It distinguishes direct scriptural statements from interpretive readings, inherited intellectual positions, the project’s own syntheses, and applications. Its sources include al-Mizan by al-Tabataba’i, al-Asfar by Mulla Sadra, and works by Jawadi Amoli. It forms a core source for the proposed Advanced Diploma in the Islamic Theory of Origination, designed with reference to SCQF Level 10. Documented corrections are welcomed through the website.