Foolishness Comes Not from Lack of Knowledge, but from Rejecting the Truth

An alcoholic cannot stop drinking not because he doesn’t know the harmful effects of alcohol, but because he chooses to ignore that truth—until his body is completely ruined beyond repair.

That’s what foolishness is. It doesn't come from a lack of knowledge, but from deliberately ignoring knowledge for the sake of ego. As humans, we all have the same opportunity to be either foolish or wise. Intelligence is not an instant product of thought. It’s about consistency in following the truth, even if that truth opposes our ego.

History has recorded that a man once claimed to be god simply because he felt he was the most powerful — Pharaoh. But feeling powerful is entirely different from having complete power. That’s ego—an inner parameter that can blind us from seeing our true reality: being human.

Human intelligence is determined by the accuracy of one’s choices in action, not merely by arguments. Life is not a scientific journal. Life is the practice of truth. And to me, the highest truth is not the product of scientific consensus, but what lies beyond the reach of our rationality: the Qur’an.

English foolishness truth human-ego consistency quran-as-truth pharaoh-history logic-of-life