Practical Method

When they are faced with some challenging situations related to their personal life, they agree to accept and adjust to a situation on pragmatic grounds even though they may not fully agree with it on theoretical grounds or in terms of their principles. But these very same people often do not display the same sort of wise pragmatism when a challenging issue arises that relates to the community they identify themselves with. Instead of responding to the matter pragmatically and adjusting accordingly, they view it in ideological terms and react emotionally, which only worsens the situation. In their personal affairs, these people are pragmatic and agree to make suitable adjustments in order to protect their interests, but when it is an issue of the community they identify with, they often become impractical and refuse to make the same sort of pragmatic adjustment. The reason for this difference in behaviour is lack of intellectual awakening. The biggest weakness of present-day Muslims is lack of intellectual awakening. No movement has emerged among them that could engage in promoting their intellectual nurturing in the light of the principles of the art of right thinking. The outcome of this is that present-day Muslims are deprived of intellectual development. Many people are simply living at the animalistic level, knowing nothing about intellectual growth and the process of positive thinking.