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Lifesaving activities are the practical results and the aim of all our activities . By utilizing 40 basic principles in the human life circles ( systems , Diag 2) , we try to rescue uncontrolled individuals ( Diag 4 )and to help them to climb through developmental path ( Diag 3 ).
Our support in this trend is God’s promise to forgive any one who tries to compensate himself and His presentation of extensive and eternal rewards which can be used as an effective motive for behavior modification. For example we can sea the following verses in the Qu’ran:
O my servants! Who have acted extravagantly against their own soul, do not despair of the mercy of Allah; surely Allah forgives the faults altogether; surely He is the Forgiving, the Merciful. ( The Companies:3 )
And hasten to forgiveness from your Lord ,and a Garden, the extensiveness of which is (as) the heavens and the earth; it is prepared for controlled humans……..(As for) these-their reward is forgiveness from their Lord, and gardens beneath which rivers flow, to abide in them, and excellent is the reward of the laborers. ( The House of IMran : 132-135 )
If you shun the great sins, which you are forbidden, We will do away with your small sins and cause you to enter an honorable place of entering. (TheWomen-31 )
These vital urges can modify faulty behavior and really a rebirth occurs. This is the result which Allah announces:
O you who believe! answer (the call of) Allah and His Apostle when he calls you to that which gives you life.
Divine system is exactly the system which offer vitality and freedom. So our suggestion can be put as follows:
Come into the Divine System, follow its instructions in your every day practices of life and really fly straightforward towards the infinite development just like above beautiful bird.
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Direct movement through the straight path of development and maturity can be seen only by a few developed and mature persons (The Prophet and the Divine selected leaders).
Fluctuant movement throughout developmental direction and loss are the most common case which may have a benign outcome, i.e., maturity and development after having some difficult crises, or a malignant outcome (lapse in conduct and loss). (Diag 5)
Complete reversed changes from developmental direction to loss or vice versa are predictable . This trend helps us to use it for life saving .(Diag 6)
Different forms of movements throughout developmental direction and loss
Complete reversed change from developmental direction to loss and vice versa
In this field , we consider ourselves in the position of a physician and we believe to the following principles :
1.Our God is the same.
2.Our father and mother is the same.
3.We all have conscience .Conscience has the possibility to put itself in the situation of others. If we have conflicts with others, we usually say, “What would you do if you were in my shoes?” This saying confirms the acceptance of conscience in both sides of the contention.
4.We are eternal beings.
5.Our future is due to our daily choices.
6.We should have free , logic and realistic thought. In this situation there will be a background that we can modify three psychic processes .i.e. cognition , affection and conation .For modifying cognition we try to ask our clients to only accept the realities and not to pay attention to surmise.
The necessity of judgment on the basis of awareness and knowledge, and invalidity of judgment according to surmise is one of the basic principles of development. According to the Qur’an:
And pursue not that thou has no knowledge of , the hearing, the sight, the heart. All of those shall be questioned of, and the most of them follow only surmise, and surmise avail naught against truth.
(The Night Journey:36 – Jonah : 36)
Qur’an confirms that the approaches which are based on reality will be long lasting and the others will be disappeared :
He sends down water from the cloud, then water-courses flow according to their measure, and the torrent bears along the swelling foam and from what they melt in the fire for the sake of making ornaments of apparatus arises a scum like it; thus does Allah compare truth and falsehood; then as for the scum, it passes away as a worthless thing, and as for that which profits the people, it tarries in the earth; thus does Allah set forth the parables (Thunder : 17).
Allama Tabatabai, when interpreting this verse, says that the difference between false ideas and right ones is related to the amount of their concordance to reality.
The whole Qur’an is a guide to development. According to the Qur’an, when announces its basic message tells: “It is a guide to development.” (Chapter 72 – verse 2)(F.21)
Allama Tabatabai, interpreting this verse, believes that access to reality in everything is synonymous to development . Multidimensional development , Perfection and evolution are the reasons and results of believing in God and obeying Him.
If we can be succeeded to modify the cognition , the affection and conation will be modified automatically. But we can present rewards and punishments, which God Has presented in the Qur’an to modify the affection.
7.The straight way to access the real development – i.e. mundane and eternal welfare – is exclusively limited to the control of self and to win the favor of God’s favor ( Diag 2 & 3).
8.Pessimism to access the favor of God is the greatest sin , and should be avoided.
9.Divine school of psychology accepts all humans as they are and it tries to correct their defects by its basic principles . In this respect we are not disappointed to whom seems the worst. Even for whom don’t pay attention to the prophet’s invitations and they are in a war position against Divine system , Islamic leaders try to convince them to change their thoughts and to go to the developmental path. The history of these cases shows that the results are not completely disappointing .
10.At the first stage, the Divine school of psychology asks all humans , not to follow the great sins defined by God . God has promised to forgive anyone who has avoided the great sins and He has promised also to put these individuals in an attractive situation.
We try to give you the details of the above principles gradually.