TAZKIYATUN NAFS AS A STRENGTH BASE OF TEACHER PERSONALITY COMPETENCY

The teacher should have a steady, stable, adult, wise, andauthoritative personality competence, be an example forlearners, and have a noble character, but in reality, hispersonality competence is still low and still far from thepersonality that teachers should have. The authors offer analternative solution with the Islamic psychology approach thatis Tazkiyatun nafs that can be used as a basis of teacherpersonality strengthening. This research uses qualitativedescriptive approach and literature or library research. Theessence of tazkiyatun nafs tends to talk about the soul (an-nafs).It is a process of purification of the human soul from theimpurities, both visible dirt and inner dirt. Therefore, the notionof tazkiyatun nafs is closely related to morals and psychology,and in Islam, it serves as a pattern of human formation of goodcharacter and cautious to Allah. In this study, the authors foundsome of the following findings. First, the growth of one'spersonality is influenced by factors from within that is theintegration of elements of aql (mind), qalb (heart), lust andoutside factors such as the process of interaction with theenvironment. Second, the soul is very functional to one'spersonality. A clean soul will produce good behavior while adirty soul will result in a low or weak personality.