Tawassum means to draw lessons. You should extract lessons from the world around you and from your daily experiences. But this is not simple. We mostly have sad experiences. In society we face less pleasant experiences and mostly have sad experiences. This is why a person should know the art of conversion, or converting negative experience into positive experience. You have to know the art of converting negativity into positivity. This is tawassum. Without this art, a person cannot have the taste of spirituality. He won't be able to translate spirituality into his life. Tawassum is the art of converting both negative and positive experiences into spiritual lessons. This is how you become a spiritual personality.
There is something called theoretical spirituality. But I'm talking about applied spirituality here. Applied spirituality is the external manifestation of the spiritual mind or spiritual character. In other words, it can be called spiritual character.Applied spirituality means spiritual character. How does spirituality translate into social behaviour? This is something to think about. How does spirituality translate in your behaviour, thinking and social life? This has been described in the Quran as tawassum. (15:75) Tawassum is the way of practice applied spirituality.
What is tawassum? Tawassum means to draw lessons. You should extract lessons from the world around you and from your daily experiences. But this is not simple. We mostly have sad experiences. In society we face less pleasant experiences and mostly have sad experiences. This is why a person should know the art of conversion, or converting negative experience into positive experience. You have to know the art of converting negativity into positivity. This is tawassum. Without this art, a person cannot have the taste of spirituality. He won't be able to translate spirituality into his life. Tawassum is the art of converting both negative and positive experiences into spiritual lessons. This is how you become a spiritual personality.
