It indicates not an absence, but an overabundance. The practice of spirituality would then indicate the disciplined increase of that awareness and a disciplined response to that awareness. Hence, there is less emphasis upon feeling states than is often the case when discussing spirituality. We are able to more clearly distinguish between spirituality and psychology. Islamic spirituality is firmly wholistic as illustrated by the Field Model .
Islamic spirituality is active in all four aspects of human experience.
It thus avoids extremes of interiority and does not portray the physical or the social as being contra the spiritual. Islamic spirituality is based upon the assumption that what appears to us as mystery revealed itself as being God. The Qur'an is this revelation. The Qur'an instructs us in the foundational importance of awareness of God and the proper response to God. It shuns any extremes.