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Shall Allah very short reminder, we see around us today, especially in our modern world.

We see people of such great intelligence, they can do amazing things, their accomplishments

are clear for all of us to see, they can go to the moon and back, yet for some reason that

intelligence doesn't seem to benefit them when it comes to Iman, when it comes to spirituality.

In fact, one of the arguments that a lot of atheists used against religious folks is that

the majority of the scientific community, the majority of those, you know, the top level thinkers

are actually not believers in religion and God anymore, and perhaps this is true in the Western

world, it's not true in the overall world, but perhaps in the Western world surveys have shown

that a large percentage of those that are at the top in terms of their intellectual genius

and acumen, perhaps spiritually they are not upon any faith. So they use this as a hudja as an

evidence. What are we to make of this dichotomy of this difference between the clearly intelligent

minds that so many people have, and yet the bankruptcy at the same time of the soul, the response

to this actually is very profound it is in the Quran. We learn from the Quran that there are two

types of akhul, there's two types of intelligence. By the way, footnote here before I move on with the

two types, the Quranic terms for intelligence, the Arabic terms for intelligence are very profound

and deep, akhul is the main term that is used, akhul, and akhul is actually linguistically, it is

the halter that you put on a camel or on an animal. So that halter that strap, you know, you hold

something in an animal, that is actually called akhul, that's what akhul comes from, right? And the

reason why your intelligence is called akhul is that your akhul should stop you from acting foolishly.

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