The Shari‘a is ratified through the consensus of the majority of scholars. The first condition for calling on others to accept an idea is the surmised acceptance of the majority. [^8]
[^8]:Zann-ı kabûl-u cumhur: “The surmised acceptance of the majority of mujtahids and learned authorities of the correctness of a judgement, that is, the strong possibility of their accepting it.” [See, Abdullah Yeğin, Yeni Lûgat, Istanbul 1975, 782]. (Tr.)
Such a call is otherwise innovation; it gets stuck in the gullet, never again to emerge!
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The Light of Reason Comes From the Heart
The Light of Reason Comes From the Heart
Unenlightened illuminati should know that ideas cannot be enlightened without the light of the heart.
So long as the light of the mind and of the heart are not combined, there is darkness, producing oppression and ignorance. Darkness garbed in sham light.
If the white of the eye, which resembles daytime, is not combined with the black pupil, which resembles night, it is not an eye, it will see nothing. Unseeing sight is also worth nothing.
So, if the black depths of the heart are not present in the white of thought, the miscellaneous information in the mind will produce no knowledge or insight. There can be no reason without the heart.
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The Levels of Knowledge in the Mind are Various and Complicated
The Levels of Knowledge in the Mind are Various and Complicated
There are levels in the mind, complicated, their precepts different. First imagination acts, then conceptualization comes.
Then comes intellection, then assent, then apprehension; then comes commitment, and then belief.
Belief is one thing and commitment is another. Out of each of these issues a different state:
Steadfastness from belief; zealousness from commitment; compliance from apprehension, and from assent commitment arises.
The inability to blend these leads to lack of commitment in intellection, poverty in conceptualization, and sophistry in imagination.
To constantly depict futile matters as beautiful
Wounds naive minds, and misguides them.