مصطلح العقل في القرآن الكريم ووسائل الحفاظ عليه: دراسة قرآنية مقاصدية The Concept of Intellect in the Noble Quran and the Ways of Preserve It: A Quranic Study

This study aims to count the repetition of the word ‘intellect’ in the Quran with its diverse linguistic syntax and then analyse it. Besides, it also aims to shed light on the ways on preserving the intellect from the Islamic perspective by implementing an analytical inductive and deductive approach. This study has concluded that the word ‘intellect’ has been mentioned in the Quran forty-nine times. It also concludes that there are a lot of ways to preserve the intellect such as: preserving the intellect through the right thinking, by pondering upon the Quran and act according to the right teaching, by using the internet as a way of study, by developing skills through the artificial intelligence, by the freedom of expression and consulting others by developing the methodologies of critical and innovative thinking, by prohibiting all kinds of illicit, by urging the intellect to not follow blindly, and by urging the intellect not to think beyond its limits. In addition, the dangers that comes from hindering the ways to preserve the intellect are: the inability to keep pace with the contemporary civilization, evaluating people in a wrong way, the lack of diverse opinions and endeavours, addiction of playing video games, believing in myths and arguing angrily.