A ‘Chief Experience Officer’ is an individual who is responsible for the overall user experience (UX) of an organization and/or it’s projects. This position has arrived mostly due to a rapidly changing design and technology landscape, a by-product of digitization which requires good design thinking at the leadership and implementation level. It is a holistic and unifying field that blends user, business,…
Category: Philosophy
Problems that Plague the Modern Mind solved via Tazkiya
“Allah never changes the condition of a people unless they change what is in themselves ” Holy Quran [13:28] Islam the religion structures itself at three levels: 1) Submission 2) Faith (Imaan) 3) Excellence (Ihsaan) All external acts of prayer that Muslims perform are prescribed for the reformation of the heart. Islam enforces that for the success…
Da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’ – A Renaissance MasterPiece
The Renaissance is still thought of as the rebirth of art. It is a scholarly accepted view that the Renaissance was one of the great creative periods of progressive development. One of the masterpieces of the Renaissance was The Last Supper, a late 15th-century painting by Leonardo da Vinci and currently located in Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy….
False Dichotomization: A Bottleneck that limits Human Triumph
To ‘Dichotomize’ means to separate into parts or classifications. ‘Dichotimization’ is the act of dividing into sharply different categories. It is part of human behavior. Everyone ‘Dichotomizes’ to some extent, it is a basic part of human behavior to reduce large and complex ideas into simpler forms so that it is easy for the mind to…
Perception – Why it limits Human Progress
Perception is perhaps a unified awareness derived from the world of sensoria. Meaning our hearts and minds bring certain information from different sensors in our body and create a reality based on that limited information. In today’s world, perception seems to have more weight than reality. Personally, i feel this is due to a rise…
Humankind – An Amazing Miracle
To think that human intelligence and consciousness is in the brain is similar to thinking that the Internet is found in your computer or cellphone. Our brain is sort of a radio, tuning into different sensors, and converging that information into a single vision of perceived reality. Whatever we see around us, was once just…
Spiritual Ascension – The Light of the Holy Quran
Are you ready to rise above others? The world is in chaos and it is high time for ascension, it is time to rise above the material world for the greater purpose of life, through the path of spiritual development. You need to change your perspective to see the reality of this world. Allmost everyone reading…
The Ultimate Downfall: Ego-Centricity & Ignorance
Is it just all in my head? Or is it that i think about things that people have never said? Is there something wrong with the way things are, at least partially, and i am quite far. A lot of times i have to work long hours to resolve issues created by Generalists from who knows which domain….
Tazkiah: The Maqamaat and Application
Note: The following article is deduced from many Islamic sources, it has been compiled by the author into a single article from the work of several scholars over the course of Islamic History. Intention behind the article is to ease the process of understanding ‘Tazkiah’ due to a personal longing and pursuit of the the truth. The author…
A Reflection on My Mother’s Death
This last week of my life has been particularly difficult in many ways that are quite indescribable, and very painful. I lost my dear mother, it is a very difficult part of my life that i am going through. And as always, what i value, i write about. Nobody in the world wants their parents…
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