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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Is there any benefit in determining the location of the intellect in the body, and is the one who says it is in the head in contradiction with the Qur'an?

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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner asks: Is there any benefit in determining the location of the intellect in the body? And is the one who says it is in the head in contradiction with the Qur'an?

Answer:
There is no benefit in it, but it is a matter of curiosity for one who wants to research out of curiosity and has no time and no work, or has no need to research where the intellect is.
What some of the researchers have reached is that the intellect is in the heart and has a connection to the brain. Therefore, if the brain is disrupted, thinking is disrupted, and if the intellect is disrupted, thinking is also disrupted. This indicates that they are connected to each other. Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) says to them:
a people who do not reason.قَوْمٌ لَّا يَعْقِلُونَ
[Al-Hashr 59:14]
by it, and He says: "It is not the eyes that are blind, but the hearts in the breasts are blind." Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [239 -560] هل في تحديد موضع العقل من الجسد فائدة، وهل من قال: إنه في الرأس مخالف للقرآن؟ — youtube.com

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