>>4152792I can tell that shia literature is illogical and convoluted. Allah had to create intellect, that is before he created it, intellect did not exist. And he commands it like a golem to move around. The judaic influence is strong, an intellect is not something that you can order to obey or have disobey, an intellect, a mind, a will, it's reasoning and motives, are not to be sent forth or back, a being with intellect can choose one or the other, how can an intellect disobey? And it then mentions that intellect, which was created, and spoken to by Allah as if it is an entity, is then told that " I will not perfect you in anyone except those whom I love." If intellect is a thing to be commanded to move forward and back, like a golem, how can it be perfected inside others?
This is some sort of twisting of wisdom itself and how it works. Men have to work on their own wisdom. Yet allah did not create men in this verse, he created intellect? This is the
Book 1, Chapter 0
The Book of Intelligence and Ignorance
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