Intellectual awareness needed

One method of attaining tazkiya is to formulate certain principles in an abstract way, put them in writing and ask others to read them.

- Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

This may be one way to achieve tazkiya, but the more effective way is to relate those principles to some situation. One form of this second method requires a living spiritual guide. Another method is for one to develop his thinking to the point of discovering on his own the element of tazkiya in every experience or observation, and then making that experience or observati