Tarbiyah - Process of attaining the Higher Purpose.

I've been reading lot of parenting stuff for my 2 yr old.

I came across a terminology "Tarbiyah"(an Urdu word)couldn't find an exact English word. Though it has a very deep meaning in Urdu but to understand we can define it as Upbringing.

Tarbiyah is a process of molding a person to be a better human being. It involves much more than just intellect, skills & knowledge. It involves a person's heart, emotions and his soul.

Every sensible person clearly knows the difference between right & wrong, legal & illegal.
A person not having a proper Tarbiyah though is aware, doesn't care how he execute work. His heart doesn't stops him from doing wrong, he never feels guilty, as time passes he enjoy playing mischief.

A person can have excellent skills as a public speaker, a computer programmer, a doctor, a cop, a lawyer or even as a head of the country but if he fails to put his skills to right use, his Tarbiyah is not proper.

Lets say, an eloquent public speaker instead of guiding & motivating the people, uses his speech to divide people & spread hate on the basis of race & religion.

A computer programmer instead of designing a productive tool to improve work efficiency and profitability of business, uses his skills to hack into servers and steal sensitive data and money.

A cop whose duty is to provide security to civilians and stop crime, favors the criminals and takes bribe.

A lawyer who instead of favoring the innocent and providing them justice manipulates law and favors the criminals and nuisance mongers of the society in return for a hefty sum of money.

President, Prime Minister, Chief Minister what ever you call whose duty is to improve the condition of the people of his country, provide them job opportunities and better lifestyle, to develop various growth avenues for the country, maintain peace within and across the borders of the country instead works day and night to amend laws to make sure that he remains in power forever, suppress those who questions his incapability, makes money for himself, defame the opposition has definitely didn't had a proper Tarbiyah.

Such people are found in all professions, we are surrounded by them. They can be amongst our colleagues, our leaders or they can be the small time laborers working for us.

Tarbiyah can only be successful if the individual has a Higher Purpose to achieve.

Desire for the mere material benefits brings the negative emotions in the person enabling him to cross any limits to achieve his material desires.

A country, an organization society flourishes if the individual working in the system has gone through the proper tarbiyah, their soul is purified, their emotions are positive and their heart is clean.