A rational and intellectual ruling called “an inexperienced person’s reference to an expert or knowledgeable person”. This is not something new in human life. Human societies have known it for thousands of years. In Islamic society, too, one of the issues that is the special concern of every Muslim is the religious issues and commandments….
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For the most part, Muslim philosophers…
For the most part, Muslim philosophers, as well as their Greek predecessors, agreed that the rational part in human beings is divided into two categories: practical and theoretical. That is, reasoning produces these two kinds of thought productions that greatly differ from one another. The wisdom created by taqwa is practical, not theoretical. SOURCE: TAQWA…
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Those whose ignorance is more and whose rational…
Those whose ignorance is more and whose rational faculties are more defective, are more proud of themselves; and those whose knowledge is greater, whose souls are more capacious, and whose breasts are spacious-they are humbler and more modest. SOURCE: FORTY HADITH | IMAM KHOMEINI (R)
The prerequisite of taqwa and self-control…
The prerequisite of taqwa and self-control is increasing one’s willpower and having a spiritual and rational personality. SOURCE: TAQWA | AYATOLLAH MURTADA MUTAHHARI (R)
Can a rational person accept the idea…
Can a rational person accept the idea that the religion which has to deal with things like consuming pork and alcoholic beverages because they have certain effect on man’s felicity or wretchedness considers the type of government and management of society’s affairs of no effect whatsoever in this respect and so Islam shows no positive…
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