muḥāsabah
Islam
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advocacy by al-Muḥāsibī
- In al-Muḥāsibī
The method he proposed was muḥāsabah, the anticipation of the Last Judgment through constant self-examination. This seems to have been an impediment to real mystical experiences; the ruthlessness of this psychological technique buried every attempt at ecstatic exaltation under an enormous inferiority complex.
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thought of al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī
- In al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī
…practice of religious self-examination (muḥāsabah), which led to the activity of avoiding evil and doing good, coupled with a wariness of the world, marked Ḥasan’s piety and influenced later ascetic and mystical attitudes in Islam.
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