Fulfilling this trust means using it in:
• Obeying Allah and His Messenger by reflecting on beneficial knowledge.
• Using it for what benefits Islam and the Muslims, such as guiding the ignorant, enjoining good, and forbidding evil.
• Avoiding harm to Muslims and staying away from deceit, plotting, and schemes against them.
Whoever does such things has fulfilled the trust of his intellect.
Whoever uses his intellect in:
• Deception, trickery, harming Muslims, or insulting them — whether secretly or openly, has indeed betrayed the trust of the mind.
It is feared that such a person may be among the hypocrites: those who appear outwardly as believers but are inwardly with the disbelievers and polytheists,
Sweet in speech like sugar, but their hearts are those of wolves.
📘 From:
“Al-Īḍāḥ wa al-Tabyīn li-Baʿḍ Ṣifāt al-Muʾminīn” (p. 87)
By: Shaykh ʿAbdul-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbdillāh al-Rājihī