Spiritual Intelligence Quotient (SQ) in the Quran and Islamic Narrative Texts

Abstract

Nowadays, studies related to the spirituality have been emerged towards the spiritual intelligence quotient (SQ). The concept of SQ combines and integrates the psychological, biological, intellectual, religious, and spiritual aspects together to explain the spiritual intelligence. Spiritual intelligence quotient (SQ) contains two important terms of “ability” and “spirituality”. The aim of this study was to search, identity, and define the equivalents and ratifications of spiritual intelligence in the Quran and Islamic narrative texts. Using documentation and content analysis method, the Quran versus, and Islamic narrative texts indicated that the concept of spiritual intelligence quotient can be find in the Quran and the Islamic texts by various words, phrases, predicates.The results of this study showed that concepts including sacred or holiness wisdom, light wisdom, tactfulness, sagacity can be explained as spiritual intelligence.

Keywords

• intelligence
• islamic narrative texts
• the quran
• spiritual intelligence quotient (sq)
• wisdom