Summary of the Book of Thinking - Episode Four
As for thinking about the universe, man, and life, it is not thinking about nature; because nature is greater than that. And it is not thinking about the world; because the world is everything that God Almighty has fashioned, and researching the world includes devils, which does not concern him. And researching nature does not enrich man from researching his being and essence. The universe, man, and life are all that can be perceived by the senses, as man perceives his existence and perceives the universe in which he lives, so he begins to wonder about what came before this universe and what will come after it, and he has the great complex, so if he does not solve it definitively, the questions will keep coming back to him. This thinking is inevitable, because feeling the universe, man, and life is inevitable, and some people ignore solving the great complex, and some of them solve it, and usually a person asks questions to his family, and because of his trust in them, he is certain that their answers are correct, but some people after puberty are not reassured by these answers, so they try to reach the answer themselves. This is because if the solution does not conform to the instinct, the questions will remain haunting the person, and if he solves it in a way that does not conform to the instinct, these questions will continue to bother him.
Communism has avoided thinking about the universe, man, and life in favor of thinking about matter, so it attributed the origin of these three to matter, and matter led them to the laboratory, but the universe, man, and life are not subject to it, so the questions need mental thinking and they move to scientific thinking, and thus the solution remains a solution for individuals and not for a nation, and it has nothing to do with life. Solving the great complex has a mental aspect and an aspect of satisfying vital energy, and thinking must satisfy vital energy, and satisfying vital energy must be consistent with the mind, and this makes the solution correct and not imagination, and it must be decisive so that the questions do not return to the person. It is true that vital energy drives a person to satisfy and solve the great complex, but this method is unreliable, as it may lead to satisfaction with assumptions and imaginations, and the solution will not be correct, so the great complex must be solved with thinking that is consistent with instinct.
As for satisfying other needs, it requires thinking about living, but this thinking, if it is not based on the view of life (because man lives in life, so his thinking about living must be based on thinking about life), then it is not sophisticated. It is true that thinking about living precedes thinking about the universe, man, and life, but in order for satisfaction and thinking about living to be sophisticated, it must be based on thinking about the universe, man, and life. And it is true that abandoning thinking about living leads a person from thinking about living his own life to living his family's life, and from living his family's life to his people, but it remains selfish and unsophisticated thinking. And thinking about living must achieve the purpose of living, and it must be responsible thinking, meaning that the head of the family, for example, thinks about his family, and in this way thinking can rise above the level of animal thinking, and this is the least that can be stipulated, and it does not necessarily mean that thinking is sophisticated.
Thinking about living is what shapes life, and a look at the capitalist principle, which, even if its thinking about living was shaped based on the general idea about the universe, man, and life, and even if it has achieved a renaissance for the peoples who adopted it, it has brought them misery and suffering, and made them in a state of discord and conflict over a loaf of bread, so capitalism is devoid of responsibility and responsible thinking. As for socialism, even though it came to create responsibility, it did not withstand life and turned into capitalism, so the current view of living is purely irresponsible capitalism in the whole world and it must be abandoned. It is true that thinking about living is thinking about satisfying vital energy, but instead of this relationship with the loaf being a relationship of selfishness between man and man, it must be a relationship of altruism, so man rejoices when he gives as he rejoices in taking. This does not mean thinking about satisfying the vital energy of others, but thinking about satisfying the vital energy of oneself must be done with thinking about others in a responsible manner.
Truth means the conformity of thought with reality, so after transferring reality through sensation to the brain, and issuing a judgment, if the judgment conforms to reality (such as saying that society is a set of ideas, feelings, and systems), then this judgment is a truth, and if it does not conform to reality (such as saying that society is individuals), then it is not a truth, as evidenced by the fact that a group of individuals in a ship do not form a society due to the lack of relationships between them, and when thought conforms to reality, it is in harmony with instinct. And it cannot be said that things that cannot be perceived by the senses cannot be judged as truth because the condition of the mental process is to feel a reality, because feeling the effect of something indicates its existence and is a truth, such as the existence of God, but the essence of God does not fall under the senses, and therefore we cannot judge it.
Attention must be paid to fallacies in facts, such as trying to obscure a fact with another fact, or trying to mix a thought with a fact, or questioning a fact, for example, that Jews are enemies of Muslims is a fact and that they are enemies of the people of Palestine is a fact, but the second fact is the phenomenon, so it was taken as a tool to obscure the first fact. There are fallacies that distract from the facts by creating actions that distract from the fact, for example, the fact that the nation does not rise except with thought, the West distracted people from it, by encouraging material actions such as strikes, and deceiving them that the renaissance is achieved with morals.
It is necessary to adhere to the facts and distinguish between them and the realities, as there are matters or opinions that are the product of circumstances and are specific to those circumstances, so they should not be confused with the realities, such as the fact that the coast is a gap through which the West penetrates into the Islamic countries, and the reality that the Crusaders defeated the Muslims at that time, so the fact that the coast is a gap that must be closed was neglected in favor of the reality that the Crusaders defeated the Muslims. It is not correct to strip thought of its special circumstances, but the truth should not be viewed in terms of circumstances, especially since the facts are taken in the mental way and with the certainty aspect of them, and not in the scientific, conjectural way.
