Scope, terms & educational disclaimer
v1.0 • 2025-07-11
Nafsychology™ is an educational, ethics-first project for psycho-spiritual refinement, using psychological typology as map-language under Islamic guardrails.
This page sets the project’s scope, explains how public materials may and may not be used, and clarifies the limits of the work’s claims, methods, and public-facing materials.
Jump to: Educational scope · Theological limits · No tests or typing · Intellectual property · Privacy, analytics, and external links · Trademark, legal notice, and contact
Educational only. No tests, scores, or typing. No diagnosis or therapy. No Fatwā.
Educational scope
Who we are
Nafsychology provides an educational map-language for psycho-spiritual refinement. The work begins publicly by clarifying Jungian typology and disciplined post-Jungian developments under explicit Islamic guardrails. Public pages provide orientation, selected Notes, and bounded explanations. Detailed diagrams, complete structural mappings, and certain organizing materials remain book-only until publication.
Some editorial revisions may be assisted by language tools. All judgments, claims, and responsibility remain with Nafsychology.
Educational scope only
Nafsychology is educational. It is not:
Psychotherapy, counseling, psychiatric care, or medical care
A diagnostic tool, psychometric instrument, or personality test
Crisis support, emergency services, or suicide prevention support
Fatwā, creed instruction, or a substitute for qualified Islamic scholarship
Nothing on this site, including posts, downloads, emails, or public talks, establishes a clinician-patient relationship, scholar-student relationship, or any other professional service relationship.
If urgent help is needed, contact local emergency services or qualified professionals. This project cannot provide crisis support or individualized clinical or religious rulings.
Theological limits and non-equivalence
Psychological typology provides provisional maps for self-observation. For Nafsychology, the Noble Qur’an and authentic Sunnah remain the higher measure for value, accountability, and refinement. Where divergence occurs, revelation governs. Where a psychological nuance is not explicitly named in revelation, we apply a minimum standard of non-contradiction and keep the language descriptive.
Nafsychology does not claim an ontological identity between psychological constructs and revealed categories; it notes limited resonances as analogies, and where empirical psychology and authentic revelation diverge, revelation governs.
→ For Professionals & Scholars: claims, limits, and citation guidance.
No tests, no typing, no guarantees
No tests, no typing, no scores
Nafsychology does not offer quizzes, scoring systems, automated typing, psychometric assessments, or function-rank calculators. The project resists test-culture harms such as false certainty, identity fixation, and using labels to excuse conduct.
Where formal instruments belong in clinical or research settings, they require qualified use and narrow claims. That is not the lane this project occupies.
No guarantees or outcomes
Nafsychology provides language, conceptual frameworks, and reflective prompts. It makes no guarantees about spiritual, psychological, relational, educational, or professional outcomes.
Examples are illustrative, not prescriptive. Application and interpretation remain the responsibility of the reader.
Intellectual property and permitted use
Unless otherwise indicated, the site’s text, structure, phrasing, graphics, diagrams, and logos are the intellectual property of Nafsychology™ or are used with permission.
This includes proprietary organizing frameworks, unreleased diagrams, detailed structural mappings, and other materials reserved for publication or limited release.
Permitted use
Reading and referencing public content for personal study or classroom discussion
Quoting brief excerpts with clear attribution
Linking to public pages or posts using their public URLs
→ Contact us: for citation or teaching-use questions. Where feasible, we will provide preferred citation language.
Not permitted without prior written permission
Reproducing, republishing, translating, or systematically archiving substantial portions of the site
Scraping content for redistribution or for training AI or derivative datasets
Reverse-engineering or reconstructing proprietary frameworks from public descriptions, including full tables, matrices, complete mappings, or evaluative rubrics
Selling, licensing, or packaging Nafsychology materials as a product, course, assessment, certification, or coaching system
Using the name, logo, visual identity, or diagrams in a way that implies endorsement, partnership, or sponsorship
These terms apply to this site and related Nafsychology public materials, including emails, posts, and talks. Book-specific terms, if any, are governed by the publisher’s edition and applicable purchase terms.
Privacy, analytics, and external links
Privacy and email list
When joining the Nafsychology List, the information collected is limited to what is provided via the form, typically an email address and any optional information the reader chooses to share.
This information may be used to:
Send infrequent, substantive updates, including publication milestones and major Notes
Understand readership in aggregate
Inform which public excerpts or talks may be most useful
Nafsychology does not sell or rent personal information. The site may use standard Squarespace analytics and essential site functionality tools.
Unsubscribing ends future mailings. If deletion beyond standard email list management is requested, contact us and the request will be handled within reasonable platform and record-keeping limits.
Cookies and analytics
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External links
Links to books, articles, podcasts, or other external resources may appear for context and further study. Nafsychology does not control external sites and is not responsible for their content or policies.
Trademark, legal notice, and contact
Trademark and name use
Nafsychology™ is used as a trademark identifying this educational framework and its related materials.
We assert common-law trademark rights and protection through use and/or registration, depending on jurisdiction. Unauthorized use of the name, mark, or distinctive materials in ways that imply endorsement, affiliation, or repackaging is not permitted.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, United States, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. If local consumer-protection laws grant non-waivable rights in a visitor’s jurisdiction, those rights remain unaffected.
Changes to these terms
These terms may be updated as the project develops, publication approaches, or requirements change. The version and date at the top of this page indicate the most recent update.
Contact
→ Contact us: for questions about scope, usage permissions, or this page.
Please do not use this channel for emergencies, crisis support, clinical consultation, or requests for individualized religious rulings.
No professional relationship is formed by use of the site or by contacting us.
Educational only. No tests, scores, or typing. No diagnosis or therapy. No Fatwā.