What does the Holy Quran says about Reason and Logic?
Dear Brother / Sister,
The mind is the most superior property of man because the trusts of Allah are accepted thanks to the mind and man can reach the pleasure of Allah thanks to it. The source and root of the science is the mind. The science is to the mind as the fruit is to the tree, the light is to the sun and sight is to the eye. What distinguishes man from the other living or non-living beings in the universe and makes him superior is the mind.
The expressions in the Quran that lead man to reason and to think like “Think!”, “Will ye not then understand?”, “Do they not ponder?”, “Look!”, “do they not look?”, “Take warning then, O ye with eyes (to see)!” show the importance given to the mind.
Badiuzzaman Said Nursi defines the mind as the purest distilled essence of consciousness, the most precious device of man, a luminous substance, a key that reveals the secrets in the nature, a divine guide that prepares man for the bliss of the eternal life, a wise gift that shows man high aims and permanent fruits and a substance utterly remote from matter in essence but related to the matter in practice.
How can a religion that gives so much importance to the mind be away from reason and logic?
Questions on Islam
- Will you explain the universality of the Quran by giving examples?
- Is it a sin to kill the insects, mosquitoes, ants and other animal in our houses?
- Why does Allah command people
- Could you please define the characteristics of the interpretation methodology of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)? What are the characteristics, content and activities on the subject of interpretation of His ummah (Community of Muslim Believers)?
- Why did the Qur’an not forbid cigarettes and drugs?
- It is said that Islam is a religion of logic. Is it true?
- When the Rizq (sustenance) is mentioned, bodily eating and drinking comes to our mind. I wonder whether there is spiritual Rizq or not?
- Is the Qur’an Alive? If it is alive then what is meant by it? Can we call the Qur’an “the Spirit”?
- Is there a contradiction between the religion and the mind?
- What are the ways of getting rid of the jinn?

