A Ted Talk As Commentary of A Verse of the Quran

Epigraph:

“I have created men, high and low, but to worship Me.” (Al Quran 51:56)

Jonathan Haidt’s Ted Talk: Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence

Psychologist Jonathan Haidt asks a simple, but difficult question: why do we search for self-transcendence? Why do we attempt to lose ourselves? In a tour through the science of evolution by group selection, he proposes a provocative answer.

The Muslim Times has the best collection of articles about the Quran and human psychology

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