Friday, March 29, 2024 AD / Ramadan 18, 1445 AH
Mansoor Hashemi Khorasani
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In any case, it is impossible for those who deny the authority of the intellect to prove their claim; because no claim can be proved without the authority of the intellect. Therefore, they are reasoning based on the intellect without knowing it themselves; because, for example, to reason that the intellect is limited and it is not permissible to reason by a limited thing is intellectual reasoning, and therefore, if reasoning by the intellect is not permissible, this reasoning is not permissible either, and if reasoning by the intellect is permissible, this reasoning is wrong!

As a result, propaganda against the intellect is the work of Satan to pave the way for the spread of ignorance in the world, and any human being who propagates against the intellect is from the party of Satan and his soldiers, who serve him, and in a state of war against God, intentionally or unintentionally.

Difference between the intellect and philosophy

The point which must be clarified here is that some people think that the intellect means philosophy, and for this reason, they oppose it, whereas this thought is not correct; because the intellect is a power given by God to properly comprehend concepts and their instances, and it is common to all human beings and not exclusive to philosophers, whereas philosophy is a special science, like other human sciences, which has emerged in ancient Greece, has been brought among Muslims during the Abbasid era, and found supporters and enemies. It is clear that the intellect existed before the emergence of philosophy, and philosophy is just a new science based on the intellect; as other sciences, such as arithmetic, geometry, and medicine, are based on the intellect, and each uses the intellect in a way. Therefore, every philosopher is an intellectual, but not every intellectual is a philosopher, and what is considered the criterion of cognition is the intellect, not philosophy. In other words, the meaning of the intellect, where it is considered the criterion of cognition, is the typical intellect of intellectuals, not the particular intellect of philosophers, and it is clear that intellectual thinking is different from philosophical thinking. Therefore, opposition to philosophy should not lead to opposition to the intellect;