Source of knowledge in Islam
1.Any system would reliable only when it has enough knowledge supporting it as a backbone.
2.Allah has provided the man with certain sources of knowledge, each having its limited sphere of use beyond which it won't help anymore.
3.These Sources are;
-Natural Instinct
-Five senses
-Intellect
-Experience and observations.
-The revelation of Allah.
Natural Instinct
Every living creature has God gifted ability to manage his/her natural act without learning
form anyone else this is totally God gifted sense which ALLAH almighty has blessed him
naturally.
Example
:
-Newly born bird.
-Newly born human baby
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Five Senses
The Foremost sources, provided to human being, to gain knowledge are;
-Eyes
-Nose
-Ear
-Tongue
-Hand
1.But each sense has its limit to be used by a human being.That is, you can only look at different things by using your eyes but cannot use them to listen to different things.
2.Similarly, a nose can only smell the things and hand only can be used to touch.
3.The ear cannot work as the replacement for eyes.
Intellect
1.When all the senses stop working and helping the human being from there another source of knowledge takes the birth that is intellect.
Example;
-there is a table in front of us we can
.tell its colour by seeing it,
.can tell about it material by touching it,
-but cannot explain how it came into being.Here we use our intellect that how carpenter went through different stages to build it.Because we neither had seen the process nor had listened to it.
Jurisdiction of intellect
1.Like all other five sense, the jurisdiction of intellect is not unlimited.
2.It is up to the certain limit and beyond this limit, you cannot use it even if you try, it stops working.
Revelation from ALLAH
1.The limit where intellect stops working starts revelation from Allah.
2.Revelation is heavenly Knowledge from Allah Almighty.
3.If someone uses intellect for it then would be similar to using the ear for looking at different things.
4.It doesn't mean that intellect is useless but it is only useful when it would be used in its limitation.
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