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How is Thoughtlessness Defined in the Qur'an?

Allah’s reward is better and longer lasting. So will you
not use your reason? (Surat al-Qasas: 60)
We have sent down to you a Book containing your ad-
monishment. So will you not use your reason? (Surat
al-Anbiya’: 10)
… Have they not travelled in the land and seen the final
fate of those before them? The abode of the Hereafter is
better for those who guard against evil. So will you not
use your reason? (Surah Yusuf: 109)
Even after the reminders in the Qur’an, such individuals as
do not wish to comprehend the reality of this world and the
Hereafter are those who do not use their reason, as the Qur’an
mentions. Allah tells us of how these people figure in His eyes:
The worst of beasts in Allah’s sight are the deaf and
dumb who do not use their reason. (Surat al-Anfal: 22)
What is of true importance is that such people do not have the
ability to differentiate between wisdom and thoughtlessness;
they cannot see the situation they are in. So they think that wise
people are thoughtless, and thoughtless people like themselves
are wise. Because they do not fear Allah or concede the slightest
possibility of having to account for the things they have done in
this world, they assume that the path they are following is the
right one. The Qur’an gives an example of their false mentality:
When they are told, "Believe in the way that others be-
lieve", they say, "What! Are we to believe in the way
that fools believe?" No indeed! They are the fools, but
they do not know it. (Surat al-Baqara: 13)
As clarified in the above verse, a thoughtless person thinking
he is wise and not admitting any possibility of being in the
wrong is the result of being thoughtless. Such people as do not