Use your intellect

25th January 2020

Blind adherence overtime cripples rationality and the critical faculty, to the point where an individual fears the use of it. Hence it is observable that some people’s faculty of critical thinking is neglected for so long that they are afraid to use it anymore.

What’s most unfortunate is that this is a learned characteristic reserved only for the fundamental questions of life; as the same person can show a high grade of critical analysis when it comes to running a business for example, but follows the most absurd and illogical ideas when it comes to religion!

In-fact, we may all live and inhabit the same world, but only a small fraction of us use critical thinking in our apprehensions of it. The vast majority use paranoia, superstition, mythology, self-delusions, distorted-basis, emotions etc.

The Qur’an is clear on using our own intellect, as self-intellectualisation is the key out of dogmatism;

 

“Verily, the worst of all the creatures to God are those who do not use their intellect;

who are wilfully deaf and dumb.” [8:22]

 

“Many of the ‘jinns’ and humans are worse than animals and are destined for Hell,

as they wilfully neglect using their hearts,

eyes and ears to hearken to the truth.” [7:179]

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