27. INTELLECT MUST SUBMIT TO THE WISDOM OF ALLAH
There is a worthy contemplative and awe-inspiring situation in that Allah, Most High, Created and constructed our bodies perfectly as per His wisdom (hikma), by which He indicated His Perfection and Wisdom.
However, He then designated death by which these bodies become ruined so that the intellect of mankind becomes confused after having already submitted to His wisdom.
Yet He informs us that bodies will be resurrected and such bodies are only created to pass through the channel of knowledge [i.e. to know His existence] and trade in the seasons of deeds [i.e. live in this life to perform good deeds]; upon which the intellect of mankind has settled and rested.
Then I noticed events even more inspiring and fulgurous, such as how the body of a young person who has not completely developed becomes incapacitated, and how the soul of a child is taken away while he is in his parents’ hands that makes them distressed— as they do not know for what wisdom he was taken away, while knowing that Allah does not need to take him away from them, and that they are the most in need of people to have their child with them.
A situation that is more inexplicable is the marinating of the life of a senile old-aged person who is unaware of his existence and life makes him undergo nothing but distress. Similar to such situations is when a wise believer is poor while a foolish disbeliever is affluent. There are more examples that the mind cannot comprehend the wisdom behind them and so the mind remains astonished and surprised.
It is for this reason, I have continued pondering upon what Allah ordained upon us until 1 came to realise that as the intellect of mankind exerts all its efforts but still fails to understand the wisdom of all that Allah has ordained upon us. While at the same time, confirm by evidence that the Creator (al-Khaliq) is the Most Knowledgeable (,al-‘Alim) and Wise (al-Hakim), it (the intellect) realises its shortcomings and incapacity to understand the purpose of all actions. So it submits while acknowledging its incapacity and hence fulfils all the obligations necessary
Therefore if the intellect was asked, ‘Since you know the wisdom (hikmah) of the Creator exists through the evidence of His creation, is it possible to question His Wisdom because He removes what He creates?’ It would have replied, ‘Not at all. This is because I know by evidence that He is the Most Knowledgeable (al-‘Alim) and Wise (al-Hakim) and that I am incapable of realising the reasons behind [all] His Actions, therefore I submit to His Wisdom as 1 have no recourse but to do so as I admit my weaknesses.’
(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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