Man's Relation With Himself

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Man has four kinds of relation:
1.With God.
2.With Himself.
3.With other people.
4.With objects.
Man's relation with himself comes next with God in importance; being very delicat, this relation is often hidden from man's notice,hence he is unaware of the damages he receives owing to his improper relation with himself.The Quran is the first heavenly book which considers this relation from different perspectives.Its teachings may by summerized as follows.
1.Man is bound to the effects of his acts.
2.The effect of his acts comes back to himself.
3.Sins turn into catastrophes.
4.One's act is recorded.
5.Man's evidence about himself.
6.Man's losses.
7.self-deception.
8.treachery to/ with himself.
9.Self-oblivion.
The article attempts to represent the Quranic solution to the followings:
1.Quranic analysis of man's relation with himself.
2.The mode of man's loss.
3.The mode of self-deceit.
4.The meaning, cause, and modes of man's hostility with himself.
5.The meaning and mode of self-oblivion.
6.The losses of self-oblivion.
7.The cause of self-oblivion.
8.The way to regain oneself