Ofall the religions of the world — there is one religion that sanctified the role of the intellect. There is so much in our Islamic tradition that honors and elevates the role of the intellect in human affairs.
The true nature of piety is not ignorance or obliviousness, but a Fully engaged intellect that is disciplined in the path of God, wrestles with the challenges that thinking poses to human beings, and employs the gifts of the intellect in a relationship with God.
The intellect is the gift that God gave to Adam — The intellect is the very reason God commanded angels and jinn to bow before human beings in the story of creation. It is the intellect that makes human beings the inheritors of God on earth.