Note: More Reflections On The MBTI Typing Theory

💐 In The Name Of Allah The Most Gracious The Most Merciful
💌 A sister in Islam asked me if I could provide more info on the MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) personality typing theory, so I'm answering her question here in case others are curious to know what it is. The first time I took the MBTI test years ago I got ESTP as my result. ESTP described how I used to be back in my teenage years and early 20s. Initiating group games like Truth or Dare, playing pranks for fun and joining casual soccer/football matches with female students from different grades were some of the activities I formerly enjoyed. After some time my MBTI type changed into ESTJ. One of the experiences I've had as an ESTJ teacher included coaching around 30 or more high school boys to sing a nasheed called "Allahu Akbar", only to cancel the performance just before the event because I thought some people may falsely accuse us of being something we're not. As time went by, after being disappointed in realizing how untrustworthy some individuals were, my MBTI personality type gradually transformed into INTJ. Or maybe I was mistyped and didn't answer the MBTI tests properly. If INTJ has been my personality type since I was a kid, then that could explain my inability to get hurt easily after the numerous verbal bullying I went through for some time (was temporarily bullied in elementary school being the only Filipino student among Saudis and Arabs prior to transferring to English international schools), my interest in reading various articles in Britannica and Encarta encyclopedia, and experimenting with random HTML codes when managing my archived online advice journal at TeenOpenDiary .com
Since INTJs are among the rarest of the 16 MBTI personality types (only very few individuals are INTJs), it can be challenging to encounter somebody whom we identify with or relate to.
Some weird things I do as an INTJ:
1] Despite having a cellphone without an active SIM card (at least for now), my phone is almost always set to airplane mode. Strangely I'm not the kind of person whom you can count on to answer text messages immediately upon reading them.
2] While I enjoy planning group outings and gatherings with a few sisters in Islam, I don't mind it if an outing, appointment or get-together gets cancelled. I understand the cancellation is either for our own good, the timing isn't ideal yet, or there is a better alternative
Inn-sha-Allah in the future.
3] I am okay Alhamdulillah with polygyny and don't consider the second wife as a "homewrecker". While some of my relatives thought my husband was cheating on me when they spotted him with another woman outdoors (I was around 26 years old that time), I wasn't the least bit surprised, like I saw it coming when I previously gave him permission to remarry.
By knowing what your MBTI is, you can have a clearer understanding of why you behave in a certain way compared to other individuals, particularly those whom you find it difficult to get along with peacefully. In my case I've clashed with several ISFPs and ESFPs who probably thought of me as "arrogant", "selfish" or "too strict" while I found them to be unreliable at times, too focused on how they feel at present and not concerned enough about the outcomes of defying reasonable rulings. Alhamdulillah just because someone's MBTI type is likely to conflict with yours, it doesn't mean there's no possibility at all to befriend them. Friendship takes place when two souls mutually respect each other and love one another genuinely for Allah's sake, regardless of their age gap, marital status, difference in interests and temperament.
You can Inn-sha-Allah discover what your MBTI type is by taking any of the following tests:
🔸 https://www.123test.com/jung-personality-test/
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp
https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test