Friday, March 29, 2024 AD / Ramadan 18, 1445 AH
Mansoor Hashemi Khorasani
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as God Almighty has said: ﴿وَرَفَعْنَا بَعْضَهُمْ فَوْقَ بَعْضٍ دَرَجَاتٍ لِيَتَّخِذَ بَعْضُهُمْ بَعْضًا سُخْرِيًّا ۗ[1]; “And We have given some people superiority over others in rank so that some of them may take others into service.”

Of course, the intellect’s perceptions are not simple, but rather, depending on the amount of knowledge and the impediments to it that exist in him, it has different levels that include illusion, which means the defeated probability, doubt, which means the equal probability, conjecture, which means the dominant probability, and certainty, which means improbability of the contrary. However, although all of them stem from the intellect, this is only certainty that is considered the criterion of cognition; because illusion, doubt, and conjecture contradict more or less with their contrary probability, and therefore, they themselves need a criterion of cognition to know the correctness of one of the two probabilities in them, and that criterion is indeed certainty that has no contrary probability, and therefore, its authority is inherent and self-evident. It is hereby understood that the foundation of the human being’s cognition is only certainty, and any cognition that does not lead to certainty has no validity; as God Almighty has said: ﴿إِنَّ الظَّنَّ لَا يُغْنِي مِنَ الْحَقِّ شَيْئًا ۚ[2]; “Indeed, conjecture is not sufficient for (proving) the truth,” and this is while conjecture is the most powerful perception of the human being after certainty, and his other perceptions are much weaker than it, and therefore, a fortiori they are not considered as proof.

The intellect is self-evident

The intellect is the major source of cognition and the first criterion of knowledge, and its authority is definitely self-evident; because it is not possible to imagine it without acknowledging it, and acknowledging it does not separate from imagining it. Rather, it can be said that the authority itself is an intellectual topic and has no meaning other than discovering reality for the intellect, and therefore, proving the authority of the intellect is like proving the authority of the authority! In other words, the authority of anything that is cited for proving the authority of the intellect is not clearer than the authority of the intellect, and proving it needs the authority of the intellect to be proved;

↑[1] . Az-Zukhruf/ 32
↑[2] . Yunus/ 36