Thinking styles in the Qur`an (part 1)

1. Inquisitive thinking style.
2. Metaphorical thinking style.
3. Other thinking styles include intuitive thinking style, analogical, visual, objective, creative ,primitive, mono-rail, communicative, sleep and many more up to 40 styles.
4. With sleep thinking style, it is known that even our brain keeps functioning and many ideas and inventions came to the minds of many people while they were asleep. We can solve many problems, get many ideas through this sleep thinking type. Its very beneficial
5. The mind or brain ,our intellect is created by Allah and our thinking styles are in the Qur`an, the Qur`an mentions almost 15 thinking styles, but they are more than that.
6. We will discuss about 5-6 of these styles.
7. The reasons why the Qur`an uses various thinking styles are many, but one of them might be that people usually have different preferences of thinking due to the environment, our genetic, our logic and various other things. So due to this the message of humanity that the Qur`an conveyed and people will be convinced, as different people think differently and would be convinced by the style they understand.
8. Another reason is that the Qur`an aims at enhancing and improving the thinking styles in the minds of the Muslims.
9. Many scholars have tried to talk about this earlier, but this approach was a more linguistic approach.
10. But we are using cognitive approach because our mind is concerned.
11. Linguistic and cognitive approach go together.

Inquisitive thinking style

• If they ask a lot of questions. Children are very inquisitive and this is one of the reasons why they gain a lot of knowledge.
• We have to change the altitude people e.g. people at university level should ask their Ustadh questions. They should be courageous enough to dare to ask, this will help them in their quest to seek knowledge.
• In the Qur`an, the 1st observation that comes to you is the recitation of the Qur`an and the great number of questions asked in the Qur`an. About 1200 questions in the Qur`an in about 600 pages. The Qur`an uses different ways in asking these questions.
• Questions and answers is only one third in the Qur`an.
• Sometimes the Qur`an asks question and answer the questions because there are certain issues that the Qur`an has to talk about, what is beyond the reach of the human perception :al-ghayb, unseen.
• The other two thirds kind of questions in the Qur`an is where the questions are given but the answers are not written, but those answers are very crystal clear and everyone knows those answers.
• The third type of the questions is where the questions are given in the Qur`an, but we have to make an effort to find the answer, it depends on human interpretation. We have to do testing, further examination to find the answers.
• Any Qur’anic verse that starts with: aa, afala, atwi’,??? Are questions.