FOUNTAIN OF WISDOM
In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, The Most Merciful
Most of the time children clamp their lips tight not to make a sound, they do not utter a single sound, but in this state are attentively listening. Why the silence, when they can just make continuous noise as expected of children, their silence is so that they can learn how to speak, because innately they know if they do not stay quiet occasionally they will never learn and understand the science and art of speech. This innate knowledge is also seen in their knowing how to drink their milk the first time when they are fed by their mothers.
Even a child knows and understands that the only way to speak is through listening. A child who never experiences sound can never understand speech, they can make sounds but can never construct meaningful words that an average human being can understand and, therefore cannot bring themselves to transmit their thoughts through speech.
If a human being only hears and listens to sounds or speeches that are of no value to his growth, that are of no use to their intellectual development or spiritual, then that is all that will come out of their mouth as well. The value of every human being’s intellectual output is in the input, therefore if one listens to, and experiences speech that is full of logically, spiritually, and intellectually developing content that is exactly what their output will be.
This is the reason why, it is emphasized in Islamic texts that we should listen to the holy Quran as much as possible, so that these golden words can be engraved in our souls and reflected in our output, meaning in our actions and speech. Blessed are those whose thoughts and hearts are intertwined with the words of the Holy Quran, because the words that they hear is a form of worship, the words that they speak is worship and their actions are also a form of worship.
Then let man look at his food (as to what he is eating?)
Quran surah Abasa verse 24
Imam Hasan al-Mujtaba (a.s.) questions the wisdom of the man who accepts knowledge without observing its source “I am amazed at the one who thinks about what he eats, how he does not reflect on his thoughts (knowledge)? This very man, who refrains from eating what would harm his stomach, concedes his heart for destruction.”
by Sh. Mohau Mokoatle
