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The Idea of Happiness in the Qur’an with Prof. Yasien Mohamed
What does it mean to be happy? Does eternal happiness exist in this world? How do we develop the virtue of temperance? Find out the answers to these questions in our very first podcast with Prof. Yasien Mohamed, who’s an emeritus Professor of the University of the Western Cape. We were inspired to have this conversation after reading Prof. Yasien’s article about the same topic for Yaqeen Institute. If you liked the teaser, go check out the full episode on https://anchor.fm/tayyib-society. The beautiful geometric pattern is done by Prof. Yasien’s late wife, Zaida Mohamed who passed away earlier this year on the 3rd of February. May Allah (swt) grant her…
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Unani Medicine: The Six Essential Lifestyle Factors
This article is the second part of Aamirah’s series on Unani Tibb. It goes deeper into the six lifestyle factors that part one, Unani Medicine: Finding a Balance between the Mind, Body and Soul, ended with. To fully grasp what is discussed in this article, Tayyib Society advises you to read part one here. The six essential lifestyle factors, also known as al-ʾasbaab as-sittah (literally the six causes), are one of the crucial components of Unani Tibb. They are responsible for creating a state of health—or a state of disease—in the human being. Each of the six lifestyle factors needs to be implemented in balance and moderation based on the…
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Unani Medicine: Finding a Balance between the Mind, Body and Soul
This article is the first part of Aamirah’s series on Unani Medicine, in which a general introduction to this tradition and the concept of the four temperaments is given. Part two of this series, which digs deeper into the six lifestyle factors, can be read here. Heralded as one of the great sciences of the Islamic world, Unani Tibb (literally Greek medicine) was practiced and developed from the days of the height of Greek civilization, and successfully reached generations across a wide array of empires in Islamic civilization. A thriving system, leading with a whole-body approach, its ultimate goal was to strike a balance between mind, body, and spirit. Some…
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Towards Intentional Communities
I admit. I do not particularly find the greatest peace of mind in the company of others. I am forever grateful for those heartwarming moments shared with family and friends, but my solitude-loving self suffers from a pre-emptive, itchy phantom pain by the mere thought of the loss of so-much-needed long stretches of time by myself. It goes hand in hand with a deceitful feeling of complete independence and self-reliance, which makes, truth be told, little to no sense. Because even though the loner in me yearns for flying solo, the more I look around, the more I see that individualism as a way of being and, even more so,…