The Qur’an For All Humanity
Mental Frame
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divested of all their might? How powerful man
thinks himself to be, but how weak he is in reality.
The thinking and the circumstances of the society in
which a person moves, are conditioning factors in
his particular mental framework
(shakilah).
He thinks under the influence of his own society
and forms his opinions accordingly. But the only
right viewpoint is that which is so according to the
Knowledge of God. Any viewpoint which takes no
account of divine knowledge is bound to be wrong.
It is on the point of right thinking that man is being
tested. What man has to do is break out of the
mental framework, which has been acquired under
the influence of his environment, so that he may see
things as they are in effect, with the divine eye.
Those who remain enclosed in their mental shell
very soon go astray, whereas those who venture to
emerge from it in order to seek the divine truth are
the ones who are rightly guided.
