Hadith 11

came. Then Heazwj Said to it: “Go back! ” So it went back. Then Heazwj Said: “By Myazwj Might and Myazwj Majesty! Iazwj did not Create anything better than you, and more Beloved to Meazwj than you. By you Iazwj shall Seize, and by you Iazwj shall Give”’. [23]
Al Nowfaly and Jahm Bin Hakeem Al Madainy, from Al Sakuny, ‘From Abu Abdullahasws, from hisasws forefathersasws having said: ‘Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘When it (news) reaches you about a man, of the goodness of his state, then look into the goodness of his intellect, for rather he would be Recompensed as per his intellect’. [24]
Al-Sadiqasws said: ‘The ignorance is an image riding inside the children of Adamas. In front of it is darkness and behind it is light, and the servant tends to turn with it like the turning of the shade with the sun. Do you not see the human being? Sometimes you find him ignorant of his own characteristics, praising these, recognising its faults, (but if found) in others, he would be angered by it. And sometimes you find him knowing his own nature, being angered by it, praising it if found in others. So, he keeps turning between the infallibility and the abandonment. So if he faces the infallibility, he gets it right, and if he accepts the abandonment, he errs. And the key to the ignorance is the agreeability and the believing in it, and the key of the knowledge is the replacement with the correct (actions) and be compatible with the inclination. And the lowest attribute of the ignorant one is his claim to knowledge without being worthy of it; and its medium (attribute) is his ignorance with the ignorance; and the extreme (attribute) is his denial of the knowledge. And there isn’t any proof (with him) of his denial of reality except for the ignorance, and (coveting) the world, and the greed. Thus, all of these (attributes) are like one, and the one of them is like all’. [25]
From Abu Muhammadasws having said: ‘Aliasws Bin Al-Husaynasws said: ‘One whose intellect is not the most perfect of (everything) what is within him, his destruction would be from the easiest of what is within him’. [26]
Amir Al-Momineenasws said: ‘The chest of the intellectual is a box of his secrets, and there is no richness like the intellect, nor any poverty like the ignorance, nor any inheritance like the ethics, nor any wealth more supportive than the intellect, nor any intellect like the management’. [27]
It is reported from Ibn Abbas having said, ‘The foundation of the Religion is built upon the intellect, and the Obligations have been Obligated upon the intellect; and our Lordazwj is recognised by the intellect, and one beseeches to Himazwj with the intellect, and the intellectual is closest to his Lordazwj than the entirety of the strivers without intellect; and the weight of a particle of righteousness from the intellectual is superior than the striving of the ignorant of a thousand years’. (P. S. this is not a Hadeeth)[28]
The Prophetsaww said: ‘The strength of the person is his intellect, and there is no Religion for the one who has not intellect for him’. [29]
Al-Sadiqasws said: ‘Whenever Allahazwj Intends to Withdraw a Bounty from a servant, the first of what Heazwj Changes from him is his intellect’. [30]
And heasws said: ‘The intellect dives for the speech and it extracts it from the concealment of the chest, just as the diver tends to dive for the pearls concealed in the ocean’. [31]
And Amir Al-Momineenasws said: ‘The people tend to be enemies of what they are ignorant of’. [32]
And heasws said: ‘Four characteristics, the person prevails by these – the chastity, and the ethics, and the benevolence, and the intellect’. [33]
And heasws said: ‘There is no wealth more supportive than the intellect, nor is there any difficulty greater than the ignorance, nor are backer stronger than the consultation, nor any piety like the restraint from the Prohibitions, nor any worship like the pondering, nor any guide better than the inclination, no