Menentang kebatilan dalam bentuk apa jua pun, seseorang itu perlu mempunyai semangat dan ilmu kerohanian

dan kebatinan yang tinggi serta

mantap dalam menguasai dirinya. Menguasai diri di sini bermaksud seseorang itu dapat mengawal emosi, memanfaatkan ilmu yang dipelajari ke
jalan yang benar, sentiasa berjiwa besar tetapi merendahkan diri, tidak gah dan tidak sombong serta berdisiplin.

Berjuang terus berjuang terutama menegakkan agama, maruah diri dan bangsa, serta sanggup mempertahankan negara dari dijajah oleh orang
lain walaupun nyawa menjadi pertaruhannya. Sekiranya tidak berani menanggung risiko, usahlah mendabik dada sebagai pejuang agama dan
bangsa. Ketika zaman British memerintah Tanah Melayu, ramai pejuang dan pemimpin berjuang menentang untuk mendapatkan kebebasan
rakyat dan mahukan kemerdekaan walaupun risikonya begitu tinggi.

Sebagai contoh zaman kepahlawan Mat Kilau, Tok Gajah, Mat Lela, Tok Bahaman berjuang berhabis-habisan menentang penjajah kerana
menindas rakyat, mengaut keuntungan sumber bumi watan. Ramai orang penting British tunggang langgang, ada yang dibunuh, ada yang balik
ke negeri asal kerena hebatnya pejuang rakyat bertindak ke atas mereka.

Dewasa ini di kebanyakan tempat diserata dunia, rakyat setempat telah celik akal dan berani memperjuangkan yang hak demi keutuhan
kedaulatan negara masing-masing. Bagaimana ini boleh berlaku? sudah tentu banyak faktor, antaranya melalui pendidikan, pergolakan politik,
dan pergerakan iklim ekonomi serta iklim sosio-budaya.

Pengaruh konflik sesama pemimpin diluar atau di negara jiran juga sedikit banyak mempengaruhi pemikiran rakyat. Apa yang penting disini,
setiap tindakan perlulah diperhalusi terlebih dahulu supaya tidak tersasar yang boleh mengakibatkan kehancuran keharmonian rakyat. Pengisian
rohani pada setiap jiwa amatlah perlu diutamakan untuk menangkis apa jua sebarang fahaman yang negatif yang boleh mendatangkan mudarat
pada diri dan negara.
Definition

Traditionally, many religions have regarded spirituality as an integral aspect of religious experience.
Many do still equate spirituality with religion, but declining membership of organized religions and
the growth of secularism in the western world has given rise to a broader view of spirituality. [5]

Secular spirituality denotes various attempts to recognize aspects of life and human experience
which are not captured by a purely materialist or mechanistic view of the world, but without
accepting belief in the supernatural. It is for example possible to regard many kinds of spiritual
practice such as mindfulness and meditation as beneficial or even necessary for human fulfilment
without accepting any supernatural interpretation or explanation. Indeed, there is no necessary
connection between spirituality and belief at all. For some, the term simply carries connotations of
an individual having a religious outlook which is more personalized, less structured, more open to
new ideas/influences, and more pluralistic than that of the doctrinal faiths of organized religions,
although whether it is helpful to call this view secular may be doubtful. While atheism tends to lean
towards scepticism regarding supernatural claims and the existence of any actual "spirit", some
atheists define "spiritual" as nurturing thoughts, emotions, words and actions that are in harmony
with a belief that the entire universe is, in some way, connected; even if only by some mysterious
flow of cause and effect at every scale.[6]. Some versions of Buddhist spirituality would also be
examples of this style of thought since Buddhism, although conventionally involving the
supernatural, is not theistic.

In contrast, those of a more 'New-Age' disposition see spirituality as the active connection to some
force/power/energy/spirit, facilitating a sense of a deep self.

For some, spirituality includes introspection, and the development of an individual's inner life
through practices such as meditation, prayer and contemplation. Some modern religions also see
spirituality in everything: see pantheism and neo-Pantheism. In a similar vein, Religious Naturalism
has a spiritual attitude towards the awe, majesty and mystery it sees in the natural world.

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Spiritual path

Spirituality, in a wide variety of cultural and religious concepts, is itself often seen as incorporating a
spiritual path, along which one advances to achieve a given objective, such as a higher state of
awareness, to become perfect human being, outreach wisdom or communion with God or with
creation. Plato's Allegory of the Cave, which appears in book VII of The Republic, is a description of
such a journey, as are the writings of Teresa of Avila. The spiritual journey is a path that has a
dimension primarily subjective and individual. For a spiritual path may be considered a path of short
duration, directed at a specific target, or a lifetime. Every event of life is part of this journey, but in
particular one can introduce some significant moments or milestones, such as the practice of various
spiritual disciplines (including meditation, prayer, fasting), the comparison with a person believed
with deep spiritual experience (called a teacher, assistant or spiritual preceptor, guru or otherwise,
depending on the cultural context), the personal approach to sacred texts, etc. If the spiritual path is
the same in whole or in part, with an initiatory path, there may be tests to overcome. Such tests
usually before a social significance, are a "test" for the individual of his reaching a certain level.
Spirituality is also described as a process in two phases: the first on inner growth, and the second on
the manifestation of this result daily in the world. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]

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Religion

Whilst the terms spirituality and religion can both refer to the search for the Absolute or God, an
increasing number of people have come to see the two as separate entities, religion being just one
way in which humans can experience spirituality. Cultural historian and yogi William Irwin Thompson
states, "Religion is not identical with spirituality; rather religion is the form spirituality takes in
civilization." "Where religion ends, spirituality begins"-Babuji Maharaj.[citation needed]

Those who speak of spirituality outside of religion often define themselves as SBNR or "spiritual but
not religious" and generally believe in the existence of many different "spiritual paths" - emphasizing
the importance of finding one's own individual path to spirituality. According to one poll, some
24±4% of the United States population identifies itself as spiritual but not religious.[19] One might
say then, that a key difference is that religion is a type of formal external search, while spirituality is
defined as a search within oneself. Spirituality defined in this sense is perfectly compatible with
skepticism about the supernatural. One might also say that spirituality is the path itself, rather than
the goal: the attitude and the way a person chooses to live rather than a goal they must reach.

The experience of 'spirituality'; the human emotions of awe, wonder and reverence, are also the
province of the secular/scientific, in response to their highest values,[vague] or when observing or
studying nature, or the universe.[20]

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Science

See also: Relationship between religion and science and Quantum mysticism

A number of authors have suggested that there are spiritual consequences of quantum physics.
Examples are physicist-philosopher Fritjof Capra;[21] Ken Wilber, who proposes an "Integral Theory
of Consciousness"; theoretical nuclear physicist Amit Goswami, who views a universal consciousness,
not matter, as the ground of all existence (monistic idealism); Ervin László, who posits the "quantum
vacuum" as the fundamental energy- and information-carrying field ("Akashic field") that informs
not just the current universe, but all universes past and present (collectively, the "Metaverse").[22]

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Personal well-being

In keeping with a general increase in interest in spirituality and complementary and alternative
treatments, prayer has garnered attention among some behavioral scientists. Masters and
Spielmans[23] have conducted a meta-analysis of the effects of distant intercessory prayer, but
detected no discernible effects.

Spirituality has played a central role in self-help movements such as Alcoholics Anonymous: "...if an
alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for others, he
could not survive the certain trials and low spots ahead...."[24]

If spirituality is understood as the search for or the development of inner peace or the foundations
of happiness, then spiritual practice of some kind is essential for personal well being. This activity
may or may not include belief in supernatural beings. If one has such a belief and feels that
relationship to such beings is the foundation of happiness then spiritual practice will be pursued on
that basis: if one has no such belief spiritual practice is still essential for the management and
understanding of thoughts and emotions which otherwise prevent happiness. Many techniques and
practices developed and explored in religious contexts, such as meditation, are immensely valuable
in themselves as skills for managing aspects of the inner life.[25][26]

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Near-death experience (NDE)

Main article: Near death experience

If consciousness exists apart from the body, which includes the brain, one is attached not only to the
material world, but to a non-temporal (spiritual) world as well. This thesis is considered to be
analyzed by testing the reports from people who have experienced death. However, some
researchers consider that NDEs are actually REM intrusions triggered in the brain by traumatic
events like cardiac arrest.[27]

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Sacredness
Social scientists have defined spirituality as the search for "the sacred," where "the sacred" is
broadly defined as that which is set apart from the ordinary and worthy of veneration. Spirituality
can be sought not only through traditional organized religions, but also through movements such as
the feminist theology and ecological spirituality (see Green politics). Spirituality is associated with
mental health, managing substance abuse, marital functioning, parenting, and coping. It has been
suggested that spirituality also leads to finding purpose and meaning in life.[28]

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Origin

See Timeline of religion and Evolutionary origin of religions

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History

See also: History of religion

Spiritual innovators who operated within the context of a religious tradition became marginalized or
suppressed as heretics or separated out as schismatics. In these circumstances, anthropologists
generally treat so-called "spiritual" practices such as shamanism in the sphere of the religious, and
class even non-traditional activities such as those of Robespierre's Cult of the Supreme Being in the
province of religion.[29]

Eighteenth-century Enlightenment thinkers, often opposed to clericalism and skeptical of religion,

sometimes came to express their more emotional responses to the world under the rubric of "the
Sublime" rather than discussing "spirituality". The spread of the ideas of modernity began to
diminish the role of religion in society and in popular thought.

Schmidt sees Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) as a pioneer of the idea of spirituality as a distinct
field.[30] In the wake of the Nietzschean concept of the "death of God" in 1882, people not
persuaded by scientific rationalism turned increasingly to the idea of spirituality as an alternative
both to materialism and to traditional religious dogma.

Important early 20th century writers who studied the phenomenon of spirituality include William
James (The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)) and Rudolph Otto (especially The Idea of the
Holy (1917)).
The distinction between the spiritual and the religious became more common in the popular mind
during the late 20th century with the rise of secularism and the advent of the New Age movement.
Authors such as Chris Griscom and Shirley MacLaine explored it in numerous ways in their books.
Paul Heelas noted the development within New Age circles of what he called "seminar spirituality":
[31] structured offerings complementing consumer choice with spiritual options.

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Study

The scholarly field of spirituality remains ill-defined. It overlaps with disciplines such as theology,
religious studies, kabbalah, anthropology, sociology, psychology, parapsychology, pneumatology,
monadology, logic (if involving a spiritual Logos) and esotericism.

In the late 19th century a Pakistani scholar Khwaja Shamsuddin Azeemi wrote of and taught about
the science of Islamic spirituality, of which the best known form remains the Sufi tradition (famous
through Rumi and Hafez) in which a spiritual master or pir transmits spiritual discipline to students.
[32]

Building on both the Western esoteric tradition and theosophy,[33] Rudolf Steiner and others in the
anthroposophic tradition have attempted to apply systematic methodology to the study of spiritual
phenomena,[34] building upon ontological and epistemological questions that arose out of
transcendental philosophy.[35] This enterprise does not attempt to redefine natural science, but to
explore inner experience — especially our thinking — with the same rigor that we apply to outer

(sensory) experience.

Symbols representing various world religions, from left to right:

row 1: Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism

row 2: Islam, Buddhism, Shinto

row 3: Sikhism, Bahai, Jainism

What is Islam?:

The name of the religion is Islam, which comes from an Arabic root word meaning "peace" and
"submission." Islam teaches that one can only find peace in one's life by submitting to Almighty God
(Allah) in heart, soul and deed. The same Arabic root word gives us "Salaam alaykum," ("Peace be
with you"), the universal Muslim greeting.

What is Hinduism?:

Hinduism is the world's oldest extant religion, with a billion followers, which makes it the world's
third largest religion. Hinduism is a conglomeration of religious, philosophical, and cultural ideas and
practices that originated in India, characterized by the belief in reincarnation, one absolute being of
multiple manifestations, the law of cause and effect, following the path of righteousness, and the
desire for liberation from the cycle of births and deaths.

Basic Christian Beliefs

What do Christians believe? Answering that question is no simple matter. Christianity as a religion
encompasses a wide range of denominations and faith groups, and each subscribes to its own set of
doctrinal positions.

The following are the basic Christian beliefs central to almost all Christian faiths. They are presented
here as the core doctrines of Christianity. A small number of faith groups who consider themselves
to be within the framework of Christianity, do not accept some of these beliefs. It should also be
understood that slight variances, exceptions, and additions to these doctrines can exist within
certain faith groups that fall under the broad umbrella of Christianity.

What Is Buddhism?

Buddhism is a religion based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, who lived about 26 centuries
ago in what is now Nepal and northeastern India. He came to be called "the Buddha," which means
"awakened one," after he experienced a profound realization of the nature of life, death and
existence. In English, the Buddha was said to be enlightened, although in Sanskrit it is bodhi,
"awakened."