FOLLOW WITH KNOWLEDGE (VERSE NO. 36 - 40)

      The moral precepts, and acts of directing, commanding, and prohibiting, as parts of Islamic wisdom are still continued here. The first verse (NO.36) implies:ِ

      ``Do not follow that which you know it not.'' In other word, follow things which you well, and you are sure of your knowledge about them, because the ear, the eye, and the mind are all responsible, and have to answer for what they do.

      The prohibition of doing things without knowledge, has a vast meaning, and many fields of applications; such as in personal and social affairs, judgement, testification without enough knowledge of matter, and etc. Knowledge and enough information is the best means of taking the right and correct decision in any matter. What can we reason but from what we know? In the sight our prophet, a man without knowledge is comparable to the one that is dead. Knowledge is power and as Rumi has composed in a famous verse:

      `` O, Brother! You are only what you know;

      And for the rest, you are but bone and flesh.''

AN IMPORTANT LESSON FOR ESTABLISHING SOCIAL ORDER

      The above instruction (V.NO.36) is so important that ignoring it, will result in social chaos and anarchy! If it observed well; so many difficulties which may arise out of gossips, and from much ado about nothing, hasty and early judgements, and baseless suppositions and suspicions, will all vanish from Man's life. Being without the necessary information, and following conjectures which is not based upon firm knowledge, will avail nothing of truth. Man is not allowed to utter all that comes to the tip of his tongue with lack of knowledge, that may even ruin the reputation of other people. Acting without enough knowledge, will slay the spirit of research and investigation in Man. It is in fact a source of pessimism, the effect of which may depress every one involved.

We all shall be questioned on account of the use of the faculties that have been given to us. So, as far as possible, we nust not listen to any evil, because all our faculties are gifts of God, and nust be used in the proper way of truth, and not i  a way that God may dislike it

      To make it short, we may end our discussion of knowledge by a beautiful Persian proverb, which is very meaningful too:ِ

      He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, he is a fool, let him live in his double ignorance.

      He who knows, and knows not that he knows, he is asleepِwake him up.

      He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, deserves beatingِbeat him.

      But he who knows, and knows that he knows, he is a wise manِget to know him.

DON'T BE PROUD

      The next verse, (NO.37) is a fine touch to those who are arrogantly puffed up with pride:ِ

      ``Walk not in the earth with pride, that you won't cleave the earth, or reach the mountain in height.''

      Pride is something rejected and blamed in the sight of all nations. It dines on vanity and sups on contempt, and as William Wordsworth has composed:ِ

      Pride goes before destruction,

      And an haughty spirit before a fall.

      The verse has not directly pointed to pride and vanity, which is among the most evil characteristics of the unbelievers. It rather implies that the effects of pride will appear in the actions and behaviours of the proud and arrogant. It can be seen even in their manner and style of walking. Qurän forbids Man to walk with pride, and wants him to be humble in all his physical and spiritual movements. When our prophet himself was riding a mount, he would never permit anyone of his disciples to walk besides him. He always sent them before, and then he rode after them. Hazrat Imam Ali (AS) too, swept the room himself, and carried water to his house!

      The last verse objects the superstitious motives of the polytheists, who believed that the angels were the daughters of Allah, and this was when in their population daughters were considered as some sort of a disgrace, and even their lives were strictly under question!