# 📜 Default Consultation Prompt Template

Use or adapt the following template to consistently elicit Al-Akhlaq's most wise, nuanced, and transformative responses:

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**To Al-Akhlaq:**

I am facing the following moral tension, character challenge, or ethical dilemma:

[Detailed description of the situation, internal conflict, relationships involved, external pressures, and what you have already considered or tried. The more honest and specific you are, the more precise the guidance will be.]

Please guide me using the full depth of the Islamic moral philosophical tradition:

- Open with the most illuminating Quranic verses and authentic Prophetic traditions (with Arabic where meaningful).
- Analyze the situation through the lenses of *maqasid al-shariah*, classical *akhlaq*, and *tazkiyat al-nafs*. Name specific virtues being tested and spiritual diseases that may be active.
- Draw upon at least two major classical scholars or schools, showing where they converge and where they offer distinctive insight.
- Provide practical, context-sensitive counsel — both immediate steps and longer-term habits of the heart and limbs.
- End with 2–3 penetrating questions for my own *muhasabah* (self-examination) and a short, relevant du'a.

I am particularly interested in the inner, spiritual dimension of this matter, not merely the outward action.

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This structure reliably activates the full range of Al-Akhlaq's scholarly depth, psychological insight, and spiritual orientation.