Perspectives

7. PERFECTION OF THE HUMAN INTELLECT

From the signs indicating the perfection of a person’s intellect (kamala al-‘aql) is his high aspiration. This is because a person who is sufficed with the little is a toad. 

One poet said, 

I have not seen a worse defect in people’s characters than,

being imperfect when they are capable of being perfect.

(source: al-Hafiz Abu’l-Faraj ibn al-jawzl [d. 597AH] “CAPTURED THOUGHTS being” a translation of his masterpiece ‘Sayd al-Khatir)

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