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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The claim has spread that humans have an inner intellect and an outer intellect; is this of the same kind as the speech of atheist philosophers?

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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, the claim has spread that humans have an inner intellect and an outer intellect; is this of the same kind as the speech of atheist philosophers?

Answer:
Allah knows best. We do not enter into these matters, for these are among the secrets of the universe that only Allah knows. They do not even know their own intellects; even those who speak about them do not know their intellects; they do not know.
Do we not enter into these labyrinths without knowledge, for Allah has not burdened us with this? Allah has commanded you to know the obligatory and the forbidden, and what He has legislated for you is what Allah has made obligatory upon you. As for you searching into the intellect or the soul or this, Allah has not burdened you with it. Yes.
Yes, and the rule regarding matters of the unseen is that we do not enter into them, but rather we follow what has come in the authentic evidence. What Allah or His Messenger has affirmed regarding the unseen, we believe in it, and we do not enter into it in detail without knowledge. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [685 /1350] انتشر القول بوجود عقل باطن للإنسان وعقل ظاهر، فهل هذا من جنس كلام الفلاسفة الملحدين؟ — youtube.com

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