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An Analysis of the Impacts of Religious Ethics Principles … M. Askarinejad et al (83
examples of Ḥikmat that Wisdom is the fruit of
manifested in their managing the faculty of
recognition. In other words, intellect by which man receives
they are not something apart knowledge and finds cognition
from wisdom. In this regard, on the reality of all existents.
Ṣadr ad-Dīn Muḥammad • Makr (Sophistry) as al-
Shīrāzī, known as Mullā Ifrāṭ (Exaggeration) Side
Ṣadrā, said, of Theoretical Intellect
Intellect is the best faculty If a man does not manage
of the human being by his/her faculty of intellect, it
which man can become will sometimes incline toward
the successor of Almighty Makr which is called al-
Allah (SWT) in the Jarbazah. Sophistry is an ability
mundane world and excel to deceive others which is laid
all angels through wisdom, into the al-Ifrāṭ (exaggeration)
defined as cognition about side of wisdom.
the truth of things as they
are (Mullā Ṣadrā, 1981a: Although man applies
137). his/her intellect in sophistry, it
is not appropriate to call it
He considered wisdom as
the elixir of life by which man wisdom since s/he merges it
gets a lot of goodness whenever with lies and dissimulation to
drinks it (Ibid: 275). mislead people. Mulla
Furthermore, Almighty Allah Mohammad Mahdi Narāqī
st
(SWT) has repeatedly defined sophistry in the 1
mentioned wisdom as abundant volume of his book, Jāmiʿ al-
good and the objective of Saʿādāt as, “Finding hidden
sending Prophets (PBUH) (Ref: ways to deceive others. Hence,
The Qur’an, 2: 269; 3: 164). it is vice for theoretical intellect
Therefore, it is mandatory to and the most lethal factor and
monitor the faculty of intellect mortal sin” (Narāqī, 2002,
to be in moderate status from Vol.1: 426-427).
which emanates wisdom.
