The Right Method of Thinking from the Viewpoint of the Qur'an

The Holy Qur'an in many respects calls people into thinking, but to what extent has he shown him the right method of thinking? Using a descriptive-analytical method this paper seeks to answer this question. Some believe that, the holy Qur'an has merely stated the barriers to thinking. Others believe that the holy Qur'an has referred human beings to his natural logic. This research shows that not only the holy Qur'an expresses the barriers to thinking, but also it exposes the rules of thinking and reasoning, and defines them in terms of form and matter. In the same vein, the holy Quran has explicitly or implicitly confirmed some of the methods of thinking such as wisdom, good exhortation, and, likewise, it has denied other methods such as imagination and fallacies. The right method of thinking can understood from the persuasive proofs and methods of the Qur'an, and its negative position toward the imagination and fallacious method and their means.