As Intelligence Increases — Speech Decreases:

<p>Of<strong>all the religions of the world &mdash; there is one religion that sanctified the role of the intellect.</strong>&nbsp;There is so much in our Islamic tradition that honors and elevates the role of the intellect in human affairs.</p> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>The intellect is the gift that God gave to Adam &mdash; The intellect is the very reason God commanded angels and jinn to bow before human beings in the story of creation.</strong>&nbsp;It is the intellect that makes human beings the inheritors of God on earth.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/illumination/as-intelligence-increases-speech-decreases-347c7a5db0ac"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>