1. IGNORING THE INTELLECT IN CONSIDERATION OF DEDUCTION IS NEGLIGENCE
A human has nothing more valuable than his own life, so I marvel at those who risk it and expose it to destruction.
The reason for this is having a lack of intellect and poor judgment. There are some who expose it to danger for the sake of praise. Someone may for example, go to hunt a lion, or may travel to the Iwan of Khosrow to be called ‘shrewd’, or he who walks for thirty leagues. If he dies, the soul for which money is desired, is gone.
More amazing is the one who risks his life while being unaware, such as developing anger that leads to murder of another Muslim, so he quills his anger by being thrown in Hell.
Even more amazing are the Jews and the Christians, for when one of them reaches the age of discernment, it is necessary for them to recognise the Prophethood of Muhammad (pbuh), and if he (learns about him yet) neglects that and dies in that state, he spends eternity in Hell.
I spoke to one of them and said, ‘Woe to you for risking eternal punishment. We believe in your Prophet [Musa (‘alayhi as-salam) and accept that if a Muslim believed in Muhammad (pbuh) while disbelieving in yours or rejecting the (divine origin of the) Torah, he would spend eternity in Hell, so there is no difference between us. We believe in his truthfulness and his Book. And we would not be ashamed if we met him. If he admonished us for not adhering to the Sabbath for example, the Sabbath is a secondary matter and therefore does not merit eternal punishment.’
The head of those people told me, ‘We do not ask you for such; the Sabbath is only obligatory for the children of Isra’el.’
I said, ‘Then according to your agreement, we are safe while you are bound to perish; exposing your souls to eternal punishment.’
It is very astonishing for someone to neglect considering what could entail eternal punishment. More astonishing than all is the state of those who deny the existence of the Creator; he sees the perfection of creation and yet he says, ‘There’s no creator.’
The reason for all of this is the lack of intellect and neglecting its function in consideration and deduction.
(Source: al-Hafiz Abu’l-Faraj ibn al-jawzl [d. 597AH] “CAPTURED THOUGHTS being” a translation of his masterpiece ‘Sayd al-K hatir)
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