In some ways this reminds me of concept that the intention is important.

So one way NLP might be

useful for example is to come into accord with god's will. We can hack our emotional response. Say
something bad happens causing an automatic negative thought (ANT). You can use NLP to hack the
negative reaction that fuels the thought loop, to substitute a positive or more moderate response. This
allows you to surrender to those things you can't change.

how Islam uses NLP to improve our lives.

1) think of the motivation directions. Islam tells of hell and heaven, and often gives great sensory detail
of them. It builds a very terrifying place to move away from and it builds a very compelling place to
move toward.

2) purely speculative, the state of Islam, the state of mind that is total submission to God, is a very
powerful and desirable state. Within that state, all desires are fulfilled like it talks about in paradise,
except there are two heavens, one in this life and one in the life to come.

I imagine within the state of Islam, a total acceptance of everything causes the physiology to change, as
well as the feelings you have about things, and these good feelings cause good actions, and those good
actions cause good results.

This acceptance eventually leads to rapport with people because in a state of acceptance, I imagine we
are like water, forming ourselves to our surroundings in a sense.

3) the morals, ethics, and standards of Mohammed and Allah, when understood in truth, are very
compelling to move toward. I like to imagine it describing paradise quite well and even allowing us to fill
in some blanks with our own special needs and desires.

There are 3 aspects here in my experience: NLP is

a body of knowledge about our connection to reality, through our nervous system and through language
(neuro-linguistic)
a body of practical, efficient techniques to change certain patterns we have, through the use of this
knowledge (programming) and language,

a set of presuppositions about reality ("better a choice than none, better several choices than one", or
"the map is not the territory", etc.)

How do those 3 aspects connect to Islam (and I'm not a specialist of Islam myself); I guess:

If you believe god created this world, you believe 'he' created our nervous sytem and the laws that
preside to its functioning, right?

If you believe god 'spoke' to Muhammad, you believe 'he' decided to interact with humanity through
language, right?

So the use (to proper ends?) of what was created should be highly compatible with Islam?

NLP is, first and foremost, a set of tools that enable a person to model another person at their best (in a
given context.) NLPers have modelled therapists, salespeople, athletes of all stripes, teachers, public
speakers, skilled spellers, people who are good at solving problems quickly, people who learn quickly, a
wide variety of people skilled at all sorts of things. Robert Dilts has even built models of people he'd
never met, based on their writings. (Many believe those models are inadequate or incomplete, and I
agree in principle, but the one over-riding criterion for a model in NLP is "Does it work?" and his seem
to.)

So here you have the theoretical possibility that, based on the writings of Muhammad, a NLPer could
build a model of the mind of Allah. Certainly not a complete one, but a model of that aspect of Him that
He chose to present to humanity by way of the Quran. It is arguable that that is exactly what Allah would
have you do -- dictating a book would be pointless otherwise -- so I don't believe I am being
disrespectful with this idea.

I think you have to do two things to begin:

* You must master the form of Arabic in which the Quran was written, including the forms of ambiguity
in it, so that you can apply the Meta-Model to what you read; and

* You must learn the historical context of Islam, what the Arab people then were like, so you can answer
your own Meta-Model questions as best you can, using whatever resources you have at your disposal.
You might also want to read Robert Dilts' books titled "Strategies of Genius" (three volumes) and "Tools
of the Spirit" (applications of NLP to "spirituality.")

Incidentally, I might have one suggestion from Islam that can improve your NLP. Sufism is rich in
storytelling, which is one of the most powerful tools a teacher and persuader can have. If you can
leverage that aspect of your culture and religion and those stories, most of which are teaching tales, in
your NLP practice, you will increase your personal skill markedly.