Deficiency in Using The Intellect

Deficiency in using the intellect is stupidity. Such a mind is foolish, confused and it lacks understanding.

The greatest manifestation of this stupidity in this mortal life is to prefer this temporary world to the hereafter. In other words, the mind that has left the hereafter aside, no matter how clever it is in this world, it is essentially stupid.

Prophet Isa AS, became friends with someone. One day, they came across a pile of bones on their way. That person immediately said, ‘O Isa! Please teach me that sublime name (Ism al-Adham) so that I revive those bones and bring them to life.’

Prophet Isa warned him by saying, ‘Do not try to do things that are beyond your power, know your limits! Give up such stupid demands!”

This time the man said, ‘O Isa, then you recite it so that I can see their resurrection.’

Astonished at the folly of this wish Prophet Isa murmured:"O Lord, what is this, He wants to resurrect the bones even though he is (spiritually) dead!”

Advice, warnings and reminders are generally of no use to fools who do not use their intellect. Listen, 'You do not sell mirrors in the bazaar of the blind nor sing in the bazaar of the deaf!’

Again, one day, Prophet Isa AS was running as if a lion was chasing him.

A man curiously caught up with him and asked why he was running. When prophet Isa AS said, ‘I’m running from the fool!’, this time the man asked, ‘aren’t you the “Messiah’ by whose breath the blind and the deaf are healed, and with his prayer the dead are resurrected? Why do you run from the fool when

you can do whatever you want?” Prophet Isa u replied:

“I swear that I recited the Sublime Name on the deaf and blind, they were

healed; I recited on the dead and he came to life; I recited on the poor and he

became rich. But even if I recited that prayer a thousands of times to a fool’s heart, it wouldn’t help. The fool turned into a solid rock and he didn’t give up

on his stupidity!”

The man who was even more astonished, asked Prophet Isa again:

“Why does the prayer of the Ismal Adham (the Sublime Name) not affect

stupidity even though it is a means of healing for every patient? What is the

wisdom behind it?”

Prophet Isa u answered:

“Stupidity is from divine wrath. While the other afflictions are not subject

to divine wrath. Foolishness is a disease that often injures and harms others.”