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They are developed by exercise, repeated employment, that is, and when they are sufficientlydeveloped and organised, man may be called educated, which means that he has formed some fixed habits of employing the powers of his mind.
This central soul, in short, is the real man, the culture of which is the chief aim of Islamic education.
It is this feeling which compels man to turn for help, according to the force of his environment, either to the lower soul with all the powers of darkness connected with it, or to the higher soul connected with the divine light and ready to guide aright those who seek guidance from it.
The educational system, whose aim is to suppress the inferiority feeling altogether, compels man to resort to some laboured and artificial means of keeping it in check, neglecting the Islamic point of view in toto.
This fundamental principle recognised by the Islamic theory of educa• tion, namely, that man should turn for guidance to his higher soul which is the recipient of divine inspiration, naturally leads to another considera• tion.
· Islamic education, therefore, is nothing but a peculiar method of self-education discovered and started by Muhammad (peace be on him !), when he was impelled by his higher soul to search for the Perfect Being.
Any• way, a man who wishes to take the Islamic course of self-education has to begin thus: He should, by auto-suggestion if necessary,create the beliefthat there is only one being in existence,though he cannot see him, to whom he is to turn for help.