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What Wisdom Brings With It

They are the ones to whom We gave the Book,
Judgement and Prophethood... (Surat al-An‘am: 89)
And with Allah's permission they routed them. Dawud
killed Talut and Allah gave him kingship and wisdom
and taught him whatever He willed... (Surat al-Baqara:
251)
"Yahya, take hold of the Book with vigour." We gave
him judgement while still a child. (Surah Maryam: 12)
In other verses of the Quran, it is stated that Allah can give
wisdom and insight to whomever He wills:
He gives wisdom to whomever He wills and he who
has been given wisdom has been given great good. But
no one pays heed but people of understanding. (Surat
al-Baqara: 269)
From all these verses we can understand that this great bless-
ing, given to a responsive person, brings about "strength of ex-
pression" and with it the "ability to persuade". A believer takes
the opportunity to explain the true religion and morals of the
Qur’an in the best possible way, with the qualities of wisdom,
decisive speech, and apt expression, as Allah advises: "Call to
the way of your Lord with wisdom and fair admonition, and
argue with them in the kindest way..." (Surat an-Nahl: 125)

ASUPERIOR ANALYSIS ABILITY
Another important quality wisdom brings with it is the abil-
ity to "analyse things". Anyone can recognize and make com-
ments on any given thing. However, of where people of wisdom
excel is in their recognition always being appropriate and their
ability to see details which others cannot. The secret of this ap-
propriateness and fine recognition ability is that believers use