From them it is the task of human reason to deduce values and norms...

From them it is the task of human reason to deduce values and norms, without adding to them anything from external sources and without distorting or impairing them in anyway.

Furthermore, teachers of the Islamic method of training go to great lengths to sharpen and develop this great faculty of man, the intellect, to protect it from being wasted in futile pursuits, and to prompt it toward action in all the numerous fields for which it is equipped.[^1] Although the intellect has the prime responsibility to receive and absorb…