HIKMAH - **INTELLECTUAL POWER **ABILITY TO APPLY REASON [*] SPIRITUAL PERCEPTION [*] COMMAND OVER DIVINE GUIDANCE.

يُؤْتِي الْحِكْمَةَ مَنْ يَشَاءُ ۚ وَمَنْ يُؤْتَ الْحِكْمَةَ فَقَدْ أُوتِيَ خَيْرًا كَثِيرًا ۗ وَمَا يَذَّكَّرُ إِلَّا أُولُو الْأَلْبَابِ {2:269}

[Q2:269] Yu'til Hikmata mai yashaaa'; wa mai yutal Hikmata faqad ootiya khairan kaseeraa; wa maa yazzakkaru illaaa ulul albaab.

[Q2:269] He grants wisdom to whom He pleases, and whoever is granted wisdom, he indeed is given a great good and none but men of understanding mind.

[Q2:269] ALLAH (SwT) menganugerahkan al hikmah (kepahaman yang dalam tentang Al Qur'an dan As Sunah) kepada siapa yang Dia kehendaki. Dan barang siapa yang dianugerahi al hikmah itu, ia benar-benar telah dianugerahi karunia yang banyak. Dan hanya orang-orang yang berakal yang dapat mengambil pelajaran (dari firman ALLAH (SwT)).

Hikmah, not only means **intellectual power AND **ability to apply reason BUT ALSO implies [*] spiritual perception AND [*] command over divine guidance, particularly bestowed by the grace of ALLAH (SWT), to make right use of knowledge on all occasions. ALLAH (SWT) GIVES PERMISSION TO FATHOM THE DEPTH OF THE OCEAN OF WISDOM TO THOSE WHO ACTIVELY SEEK IT FROM HIM WITH DEVOTED DETERMINATION.

ä  The highest form of hikmah is revelation revealed to the divinely chosen and the thoroughly purified by the almighty all-wise. Please read verse 33:33 of al Ahzab with verses 56:77 to 79 of al Waqi-ah. THE CREATOR LORD CREATED A GROUP OF HIS CHOSEN REPRESENTATIVES, **thoroughly purified them, **gave them His wisdom, AND THEN **commissioned them to guide mankind, in every age and every clime, till eternity.

One after another the prophets of ALLAH (SWT) came with divine guidance at every stage of development in the human society; AND IN the end the last messenger of ALLAH (SWT), the Holy Prophet (ALLAHuma sali ala Muhammad wa ala ali Muhammad), came with the final message, after which the office of prophethood was terminated. TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE the revealed truth in its original form, uncorrupted, the merciful Lord, after risalat, established the institution of imamat, and appointed Imams (guide-leaders). Through the Imams of the Ahlul Bayt, the thoroughly purified, the divine guidance will continue to guide the people to the end of this world.

µ  ALLAH (SWT) HAS SHOWN HIM (MAN) THE RIGHT WAY (DAHR 76:3), AND GIVEN HIM THE FREE CHOICE TO IDENTIFY THESE RIGHTLY GUIDED GUIDES AND OBTAIN TRUE GUIDANCE, OR REJECT THEM AND GO ASTRAY.

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(2:269) He bestows wisdom upon anyone He wills, and he who is given wisdom is in fact given great wealth, *309 but only those who have common sense learn lessons from these things.

*309. 'Wisdom' signifies sound perception and sound judgement. The purpose of this statement is to point out that one who is possessed of wisdom will follow God's path rather than that of Satan. The followers of Satan believe that it is the height of wisdom and shrewdness to be constantly concerned with saving out of one's earnings, and to be perpetually on the look-out for higher income. But for those endowed with Divine perception such an attitude is sheer folly. True wisdom consists in using one's resource moderately to meet one's needs and in spending whatever is left for charitable purposes. It may be possible for a person who does not spend for charitable purposes to attain a much greater degree of worldy prosperity than others. The life of this world, however, is only a fraction of man's total life which is not limited to the confines of this world. One who risks the well-being of his eternal existence for the sake of highly transient well-beingin this world is indeed a fool. The truly wise person is he who makes full use of the tenure of this life and invests his resources in prosperity in this life that will never cease.