Journal Name:
- International Journal of Islamic Thought
Abstract (2. Language):
Islamic religious message has come to build a human life intellectually, ideologically,
and culturally based on a solid foundation. It took the messengers and prophets
responsible for this divine message to be published for all people. This religion has
not emerged from intellectual and philosophical jurisprudence only, it has emerged
from two sources of knowledge. Al-Najjar has referred to these sources of knowledge
are revelation and reason, and it took the mind and the senses as means of its
realization. Revealation is considered to be the most reliable source of knowledge
that human receives from the holy Quran. The holy Quran considered intellect as the
main source of knowledge and takes the responsibility of commissioning,
forethought and argument. Both the reason and revealation according to Islamic
approach are compatible and not conflicting. Their relationship is not a debatable
relation, but the intellect is a mean to understand the revealation and believe on it.
Meanwhile the revealation is a mean of the advancement of the human reason and
expand its capacity since the intellect calls the human being for the highest degree
of humanitarian sanity. In order for human to reach these degrees, he must have
sensible intellect and receiving knowledge, so the sensible intellect is the one who
looks at the universe in order to meditate and understand without deviation, and
the knowledge that human receives from the Holy Quran. Hassan Hanafi and Nasr
Hamid Abu Zayd have violated this framework through their palaver of intellect.
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