It would also be necessary to make effort to
understand if there is behind this party leading the protest any other
influence or direction that has pushed this party in the direction of
demonstrating in order to achieve a specific aim or objective. All of this is
necessary so that when we issue our judgment upon the reality it is correct or
near to being correct. It is sufficient for our judgement to have been deep and
not merely restricted to one manifested reality from amongst the manifestations
related to that reality. Rather we would have expended effort to understand the
reality according to its true reality and we would have examined the factors,
objectives, circumstances and conditions that relate to this incident and after
that we would have issued a judgement. Another example: A young man wishes to
marry; he sees a beautiful girl and then judges from her appearance that she is
suitable to be his wife. This is a shallow and superficial judgement. It would
be more elevated to know whether she is already married or not? Is she healthy
or sick? Is she able to speak or is she mute? Is she fertile or barren?
And
even more elevated than that would be for him to know her family from her
father? And what house she is living in? And even more elevated than this would
be to understand her viewpoint towards life and what her beliefs are? What
thought does she carry? If he fulfils this study and gains an understanding of
this reality then his judgement upon this reality would become elevated and
close to what is correct. Another example: When we listen to a text that is
read out or we read a subject. If our reading or listening to that text was for
the sake of killing time or self-amusement or if it was absent in terms of
vision and depth in regards to comprehending its meanings or we were unable to
do that, then we would pass a superficial or shallow judgement upon this text.
However when we examine its literary form and make effort to know its
conformity to the rules of the language, then in this case we can make a
judgment from a literary angle and aspect. However when we try to contemplate
its meanings and understand the reality upon which it applies, to know the one who
has compiled the text and the occasion or circumstances in which it was made,
then we would have taken from this text or this study an intellectual taking
which is far from superficiality or shallowness.
Our
judgement upon it would then be a deep judgement that is far away from
shallowness and superficiality as a result. As for the deep thought, it is also
a judgment upon a reality however it requires the knowledge of the reality and
is not restricted to one manifestation from amongst its manifestations or one
particularity from amongst its particularities. Knowing and understanding
matters and things requires knowledge of its partialities and specificities so
that there minute composition can be arrived at. As for understanding the
realities and events then it is necessary to know and understand the sides
involved in the dispute and the matter being disputed over, in addition to the
circumstance or conditions that the dispute is occurring upon and the direct
causes and indirect causes for it if they exist. As for understanding the legislative
text then this requires another matter as it requires wide knowledge needed to
interpret the text and understand it, in addition to expending effort to
distinguish between the legislative text and the literary text or algebraic
text and so on.
It
also requires wide knowledge needed to understand the indications of the worded
expressions whether they are literal or metaphorical and to comprehend the
meanings of the sentences and compositional structures. If all of this
knowledge is present and we have expended effort to judge upon the text or
understand it, we would have then judged upon it or understood it correctly or
close to that which is correct. This is the deep thought. However it still
remains incomplete and falls short in fulfilling all that the study requires.
This is because things, matters and realities have circumstances and conditions
that have an effect upon them and they have related matters that it is
necessary to comprehend whilst these circumstances, conditions and related
matters are not part of the things, matters, realities or events. So studying a
poem does not mean that the poet is known, or the circumstance in which it was
said or written are known, just as understanding a destructive explosion does not
mean that the one who is behind it is known or the aim behind it or who ordered
it to be done are known.
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