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The True Wisdom That Comes From Faith

n what is to follow in this book, we will examine the effects of
romanticism in our daily lives. Before venturing into this topic,
Ihowever, we must explain in more detail the meaning of the idea
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of "wisdom" we have mentioned so often up to this point in the book.
The important difference between a wise person and an
intelligent person is often missed. This is a critical error. The word
"intelligence" is generally used in our society to refer to the quality of
mere mental acuity, and is very different from wisdom.
Wisdom is the quality of a believer who has the ability to
recognise the subtle signs of God in everything that He has created,
allowing him to understand the world around him. But, any attempt
to consider these things, that relies only on the brain's ability to
calculate cause and effect, is bound to end in a mechanistic and narrow
perception of reality. Intelligence is a quality of a believer who has a
firm faith in God, and who lives his life in accordance with the
teaching found in the verses of the Qu'ran. Intelligence is a physical
characteristic possessed by all individuals in varying degrees, but
wisdom is a quality that belongs only to believers. Those who do not
have faith also are not possessed of the "virtue" of wisdom.
Wisdom allows a believer to properly employ his mental abilities,
judgement, and logic, thus making the best use of his virtues. An
individual without wisdom, no matter how intelligent he may be, is
bound at some point to veer into faulty thinking or into bad
judgement. If we examine unbelieving philosophers throughout the
course of history, we will recognise that they have put forward
different and sometimes even diametrically opposed views on the
very same subject. Despite the fact that they were people of high
intelligence, they had no faith; and because they had no faith, they also
were not sufficiently wise and were therefore incapable of arriving at
the truth. Some of them, indeed, drew humanity into numberless
errors. We can find several such examples in recent history: Many
philosophers, ideologues, and statesmen, such as Marx, Engels, Lenin,
Trotsky, despite the fact that they were very intelligent, caused disaster