Explaining the meaning of intellect in the saying of the Exalted: “Do you not use your intellect?” and the divisions of intellect into intellect of guidance and intellect of legal accountability, along with the grammatical parsing of this sentence.
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Here, the intellect referred to is the intellect of guidance, not the intellect of legal accountability, because intellect is of two types: one is the criterion for legal accountability, which is the perception and understanding of things; and the other is the criterion for guidance, or rather, it is guidance itself, which is that a person manages his affairs well. The management of affairs well is called intellect because the person used his intellect in what benefits him. Is that clear? Which of the two is meant here? The intellect of guidance, not the intellect of legal accountability? The intellect of guidance, otherwise they would be legally accountable. Now, this construction in has an issue: the fa' is a conjunction and the hamzah is for interrogation. It is known that the interrogative hamzah takes the beginning of the sentence, but here the conjunctive fa' was in the position before the hamzah. So the grammarians differed regarding such a construction. Some said that the hamzah is attached to a deleted word that is estimated based on the context. Others said that the fa' slipped from its place and that the original form is: “So do you not use your intellect?” but the hamzah was brought forward because it has the precedence, and the letter of conjunction was delayed. This occurs when the hamzah comes after the fa', like here, or after it, then like his saying: [Yunus 10:51] and after the waw [Ar-Rum 30:9]. If you look at the grammatical rule, I would say that making the speech based on an estimated deleted word is closer to the rules. And if you look at the fact that sometimes the estimation is lacking, because the estimation must be a suitable sentence, I would say: if we take which one? The second one, because it is easier. The second one: you say the fa' is a letter of conjunction and the sentence after it is conjoined to what preceded, and the original position of the fa' is before the hamzah, but it slipped, and the matter is ended. You do not go around seeking what to estimate.
