The new semester has just began.. Been a bit busy with the classes.. Seems my classes starts at 8.00 am everyday.. *sigh.. I have a packed schedule this semester.. Most of the subjects I am learning this semester are so interesting.. I am eager to know more about what I studied.

Being a Psychology student , I have learned about human body biologically, how our mental processes, what is our response towards the things surround us, the way people behave and why actually they did that. Psychology can be defined as the knowlegde or the study of human behavior and mental processes. This definition is from the western perspective. From the Islamic perspective, the soul will be included. Why we have to study the soul?.The irony is that the word psychology is based on the Greek word psyche, meaning "soul" or "spirit". Psychology therefore means study of the soul. However it is now anything but, and indeed the idea of a soul or spiritual nature is not even acknowledged in mainstream psychology. The advantages of being an Islamic University student is the Islamic perspective will not be forgotten in everything that we learned. No matter how genius the westerners are but actually the Muslims has discovered the knowlegde much more earlier. They are not being exposed like the westerners. According to the Islamic perspective, knowledge is of two types: 'revealed' (al-wahy) Divine knowledge and material knowledge (al-kawn) . Divine knowledge is intuitive, subjectively experienced and leads to a transformation in the individual. Material knowledge is what is generally considered to be objective and is experienced more as a process of accumulating information. There is a difference in transformation and information. Divine knowledge and material knowledge though are not necessarily contradictory. They reflect the co-existence of the two different (but not opposing) dimensions: the spiritual dimension and the physical dimension. The westerners focus more on material knowledge(al-kawn). It is because they believes that knowledge is something that you can see, observe and do experiment with. Most of their theories is based upon the empirical evidences. Other knowledge may give us glimpse of truths about ourselves as researchers continually discover what Allah has created. However, human theories remain limited as they lack the overall picture: they have a very narrow context.

It is clear to us when we view our lives from this perspective, our time here on earth is actually only a small part of our ultimate destiny. My mama used to tell me what ever I did akhlak comes first and remember where are we heading to. I am not a perfect human being, but slowly I'll change to be someone that is subservient as a slave of God, observes what being thought and be a good daughter to my parents, and responsible towards my family. Not forgetting as a part of community in this world I have to play my part.

On the other hand all Muslims should be excellent psychologists. Our whole life is based on knowing the answers to these basic questions.Wherever you go, from remote villages to modern cities, practising Muslims will be able to tell that we are on a journey: Before we were born we were with Allah, and all souls bore witness that Allah is their Lord ( 7:172) Our purpose in this life is to worship Allah (51:56) After death we will be raised up and according to our deeds in this lifetime we will be rewarded or punished (101:5-8)

tinkerbell : such a long way to go...

Surely in a free and modern society, dressing should be a matter of discipline and taste. People should have the sense to dress moderately taking into account the time and place.