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greeting from Allah, blessed and good. In this those who do not know?’ It is only people of in-
way Allah makes the Signs clear to you so that telligence who pay heed. (39:9)
hopefully you will use your intellect. (24:61) Those who listen well to what is said and follow
He (Musa) said, ‘The Lord of the East and the the best of it, they are the ones whom Allah has
West and everything between them if you used guided, they are the people of intelligence.
your intellect.’ (26:28) (39:18)
Anything you have been given is only the enjoy- Do you not see that Allah sends down water from
ment of the life of this world and its finery. What the sky and threads it through the earth to emerge
is with Allah is better and longer lasting. So will as springs and then by it brings forth crops of
you not use your intellect? (28:60) varying colours, which then wither and you see
We have left a Clear Sign of them behind for peo- them turning yellow and then He makes them
ple who use their intellect. (29:35) into broken stubble? There is a reminder in that
If you ask them, ‘Who sends down water from for people of intelligence. (39:21)
the sky, bringing the earth back to life again after We gave Musa the guidance and bequeathed the
it was dead?’ they will say, ‘Allah.’ Say: ‘Praise be Book to the tribe of Israel, as guidance and a re-
to Allah.’ But most of them do not use their intel- minder for people of intelligence. (40:53-54)
lect. (29:63) It is He Who created you from earth, then from a
Among His Signs is that He shows you lightning, drop of sperm, then from a clot of blood, then He
a source of fear and eager hope, and sends down brings you out as infants, then so you may
water from the sky, bringing the dead earth back achieve full strength, then so you may become
to life by it. There are certainly Signs in that for old men–though some of you may die before that
people who use their intellect. (30:24) time–so that you may reach a predetermined age
He has made an example for you from among and so that hopefully you will use your intellect.
yourselves. Are any of the slaves you own part- (40:67)
ners with you in what We have provided for you We have made it an Arabic Qur’an so that hope-
so that you are equal in respect of it, you fearing fully you will use your intellect. (43:3)
them the same as one another? In that way We And in the alternation of night and day and the
make Our Signs clear for people who use their provision Allah sends down from the sky, bring-
intellect. (30:28) ing the earth to life by it after it has died, and the
He has led huge numbers of you into error. Why varying direction of the winds, there are Signs for
did you not use your intellect? (36:62) people who use their intellect. (45:5)
When We grant long life to people, We return As for those who call out to you from outside
them to their primal state. So will you not use your private quarters, most of them do not use
your intellect? (36:68) their intellect. (49:4)
And you pass by them in the daytime and at Is it their intellects that direct them to say this or
night. So will you not use your intellect? (37:137- is it that they are an unbridled people? (52:32)
138) Know that Allah brings the earth to life after it
It is a Book We have sent down to you, full of was dead. We have made the Signs clear to you
blessing, so let people of intelligence ponder its so that hopefully you will use your intellect.
Signs and take heed. (38:29) (57:17)
We gave him back his family and the same again They will not fight against you all together as a
with them as a mercy from Us and a reminder for group except in fortified towns or behind high
people of intellect. (38:43) walls. Their hostility towards each other is in-
What of him who spends the night hours in tense. They are full of bravado in each other’s
prayer, prostrating and standing up, mindful of company. You consider them united but their
the hereafter, hoping for the mercy of his Lord? hearts are scattered wide. That is because they
Say: ‘Are they the same–those who know and are people who do not use their intellect. (59:14)
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