High Ambition in Light of the Prophetic Sunnah: An Objective Hadith Study

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Department of Hadith and its Sciences - Fundamentals of Religion and Islamic Call in Menoufia - Al-Azhar University – Egypt.

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Allah loves the highest matters, and the key to them is ambition. Ambition is a motivator in the soul to transcend and rise in ranks. Achieving that requires arousing the soul to high ambitions, training it to do what is commanded and recommended, adorning it with good morals, satisfying its desire for knowledge, and acquiring sciences. In this research, I have addressed the meaning of high ambition, and its evidence from the Holy Qur’an and Sunnah. I have also examined some of the care of the Prophetic Sunnah for it. Then, in a special section, I addressed the methods that motivate the advancement of ambitions by examining the hadiths mentioned in that regard. The research concluded that the person with high ambitions must wander in the highest matters so that he does not leave anything of the essence of faith without bringing it, and with all this, he is committed to his ambition from falling into baseness and degradation. The research has shown the keenness of the Holy Sunnah on the connection between ambitions and By Allah, the Almighty, and its attachment to what He has of bliss, and that He has established means for the elevation of ambitions and theirhe

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