We at SEMARTI believe the primary obstacle to success is arrogance. The reason for choosingarrogance as the primary obstacle is because it breeds in us several attitudes that prevent us from doing what is needed to succeed.
By uprooting this arrogance, accepting the fact that we do not know all we need to know, andaccepting the fact that others might be more knowledgeable than us, we now have a duty to ourselves to act on these facts.
By not putting the acquired knowledge into use, our Iq’tida process will have been in vain. Thus, to continue the path towards uprooting the obstacles to success and entrenching the enablers
When we have Azm, we have the ability, willingness, desire, and intention to do our best. However, it does not guarantee that we will do our best, since, by nature, we tend to search for shortcuts
To form new understandings, the basis of dialogue, rather than compromise on what we believe to be true or right, we need to start with trust. Trust, or Ihsan Al-Than, means we believe what others say to us without doubting their intentions.
Ihsan Al-Than can stop at both sides tolerating each other’s viewpoint. Dialogue, however, aims to create a new understanding based on the views and needs of all sides to an issue or problem. Thus
As we continue to exhibit Qabool, our understanding of and familiarity with other views and perspectives will increase. However, as long as we continue to perceive ideas in the frameworkof “ours” and “theirs”