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Question No. 3005 31 August 2022 Official answer by Master Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) verified Content level: Intermediate

How Can We Develop a Creative, Design-Oriented Mind?

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Dear questioner, Master Ali Saei
Tracking code: #Q-3005

How can I develop a creative, design-oriented mind—one capable, for example, of understanding complex mathematical problems and entering the realm of genius?

Can believers of modest ability make remarkable strides in this regard compared with people who lack piety and have weak faith? Or does talent come first?

If there are exercises to strengthen our powers of understanding and analysis, please share them.

Thank you.

The essence and first answer at a glance (60-word summary)

Wisdom is the key to attaining a transcendent, creative mind. Until the celestial intellect awakens, heavenly creativity cannot take flight. Certainty is the force that brings genius to fruition. The proposed remedy is a wise outlook and a path grounded in certainty—one that awakens inner intelligence and allows its effects to emerge in thought and action.

Answer by Master Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat)

Teacher and researcher in the intellectual tradition of wisdom and the Ahl al-Bayt | Soroush Bamdadān Cultural Center

Wisdom is the secret to attaining a transcendent, creative mind!

Until the celestial intellect within a person awakens, the mind, thought and heavenly creativity will not be set in motion.

Wisdom is the operating system of elevated creativity.

Wisdom, in its true sense, finds expression in the mind and heart, in the intellect, thought and speech, and in art, craft and medicine.

Certainty is the strength, fuel and capacity that bring the highest genius to fruition!

The teachings of the Meshkat-e Noor gathering offer gifts along this path.

A recommended prescription (a wise way of seeing):

A prescription that works wonders in the heart of a believer and awakens their inner intelligence! So let us attune our hearts to wisdom and, on the path of certainty, set our vision in motion, allowing its effects to appear in our thoughts and actions.

Other prescriptions have been entrusted to the heart of Meshkat.

أ فلا ینظرون إلى الابل کیف خلقت(17) الغاشیه
و إلى السماء کیف رفعت(18)
و إلى الجبال کیف نصبت(19)
و إلى الأرض کیف سطحت(20)

17 Do they not look at the camel—how it was created?
18 And at the sky—how it was raised?
19 And at the mountains—how they were set firm and lifted high?
20 And at the earth—how it was spread out and made level?

الأنعام : 99 و هو الذی أنزل من السماء ماء فأخرجنا به نبات کل شی‏ء فأخرجنا منه خضرا نخرج منه حبا متراکبا و من النخل من طلعها قنوان دانیه و جنات من أعناب و الزیتون و الرمان مشتبها و غیر متشابه انظروا إلى‏ ثمره إذا أثمر و ینعه إن فی‏ ذلکم لآیات لقوم یؤمنون

He is the One who sends down water from the sky, and by it We bring forth every kind of plant. From it We bring forth green growth, from which We produce grains clustered together; and from the date palm, its emerging clusters hanging low; and gardens of grapevines, olives and pomegranates, alike and unlike. Look at their fruits as they appear and ripen. Surely in this are signs for people who believe.

الطارق : 5 فلینظر الإنسان مم خلق

So let the human being consider what they were created from!

الأعراف : 185 أ و لم ینظروا فی‏ ملکوت السماوات و الأرض و ما خلق الله من شی‏ء و أن عسى‏ أن یکون قد اقترب أجلهم فبأی حدیث بعده یؤمنون

Have they not looked, with reflection and insight, at the dominion of the heavens and the earth and all that God has created? And have they not considered that perhaps their end is drawing near? If they do not believe in this clear Scripture, what message will they believe in thereafter?

ق : 6 أ فلم ینظروا إلى السماء فوقهم کیف بنیناها و زیناها و ما لها من فروج

Have they not looked at the sky above them—how We built it and adorned it, with no cracks or fissures in it?

و الأرض مددناها و ألقینا فیها رواسى‏ و أنبتنا فیها من کل‏ زوج بهیج(7)

And We spread out the earth, set firm mountains upon it, and caused every lovely kind of plant to grow there.

تبصره و ذکرى‏ لکل‏ عبد منیب(8)

A means of insight and a reminder for every servant who turns back to God.

و نزلنا من السماء ماء مبارکا فأنبتنا به جنات و حب الحصید(9)

And We sent down blessed water from the sky, and by it brought forth gardens and grain to be harvested.

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