Unit 2: Refining Our Characters

• Understanding the spiritual purpose and the meaning of sexuality

• Providing spiritual care for the sexually assaulted, harassed and abused

• Gender identity and sexual orientation

• Providing spiritual advice for parenting

• Building character

  • Blameworthy modesty

  • Difference between backbiting, consultation, and helplessness

  • Difference between impulsiveness, patience and passivity

  • Difference between indecisiveness, confidence, and presumptuousness

  • Difference between rushing, initiating and procrastinating

  • Difference between rudeness, politeness and timidity

  • Difference between flattering, thankfulness and ingratitude

  • Difference between greed, enterprise, and inactivity

  • Difference between wishful thinking, home and despair

  • Difference between wrecklessness, courage, and cowardliness

• Understanding blameworthy qualities (wontonness, love of the world, austentation, fear of poverty, false hope, fantasizing, and relying on other than Allah)