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Emotional Intelligence : The Prophetic Way

1. Emotional Intelligence (EI) can simply be described as thinking before acting. It is the ability to think and choose the appropriate response instead of just acting on impulse. It is a skill, an art, a key ingredient in the lives of successful leaders and individuals. It is the ability to be self-aware to regulate our emotions to be self-motivated and push ourselves to do our best in good days and bad days. These are the intra personal and inner dimensions of emotional intelligence. The inter personal or external dimensions including social skill or art of being socially aware and communicating effectively with different types of people in different contexts as well as the ability to empathize with others to understand others view points and feeling.
2. While conducting corporate workshop on EI, we have to go back to Seerah (history) of the Greatest Leader to have walked on the planet. The chosen one, the prophet of Allah, Muhammad (sm), to draw examples of EI in its best.
3. Prophet Muhammad (sm) was not only the greatest religious leader, but he is also the most successful reformer, the best judge, the most just ruler, a great family man, and friend as well as powerful General who concerted a group of nomads into a powerful, discipline fighting machine, that consolidated the Arabia and went to defeat the Superpowers of the world, which left an impact on the rest of the humanity and on the history of mankind. His life is a treasure trove of effective strategies and lessons to learn from. Hence this course covers the various dimensions of EI, reflecting on the life of the prophet(sm) and His teaching to draw valuable lessons to implement in our lives.
4. His effectiveness is recognized by Muslims and non-Muslims historians, followers, critics and enemies alike. In his famous book titled, “ The 100: The ranking of the most influencing Persons in History”, Michel Hart has placed Prophet Muhammad (sm) on top and justified his analysis saying :

“ My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the influencing persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in the history who was supremely successful on the both the religious and secular level”.

A Hindu Scholar, Diwan Chad Sharma, makes a note on the Prophet’s (sm) incredible social skills and influence: “Muhammad was the soul of kindness, and his influence was felt and never forgotten by those followers”.    

Allah the Almighty confirmed in His Book that, “Indeed we have made you (Muhammad) the gold-standard of character”.

5. Now, let us look at the summary of topics of the course. The first chapter gives an overview of emotions and EI. The next five chapters would delve into in each components of EI, Self-Awareness, Self Purification, Self-Regulations, Self-Motivations and Social Skill. Each chapter is organized as following- definitions, various components of the skill, drawing example from Prophet (sm) , Islamic History, and modern day example. This course is a guideline to assist us in transforming ourselves, to be a spring board to launch great success. Unless we actively participate in reflecting on our life, complete the Action plans, journal our progress recalibrate what we learn, it would the most ‘A Good Course’.