I emailed Ryan Holiday about Islam and Stoicism...
Channel: Optimized Muslim
Date: 2022-09-26

I once emailed Ryan Holiday about Islam and the various ahadith and scholarly sayings in Islam that a non-muslim would see as being "stoic".

In this clip, We discuss how Islam offers the ultimate in "self-development". Much of what we find in self-development in terms of the key practices of visualisation, affirmations, meditation etc have all been stripped of their religious or spiritual connotations. We discuss how Islam has a lot of these practices in a truly holistic sense. All the practices are to be used to get us closer to Allah swt and our ultimate purpose. 

We do not simply engage in self-development for the purposes of bettering or Worldly life.

Check out the full episode here: https://youtu.be/tEiyftxCP4k


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