The 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀 in History

 The 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀 in History 🧠📚✍️

It must be said, the Islamic world has produced some of the Greatest Legal and Literary minds in human history. I am genuinely frightened when simply contemplating the level of genius and intellectual rigour it would take to achieve but only 1% of the Literary and Juristic output contained in monumental tiles such as al-Muhaddhab, al-Qawanin, Majmu'a Fatawah etc just to mention but a sample selection of what has been preserved in the vast intellectual repository of Islamic literature and thought. The mere thought of such genius and industry is mind boggling 🤯. In the age of advanced technology and AI facilitated learning, we can only but but dream of encountering individuals as erudite and prolific as those whose names adorn our shelves and bibliothecs. When we talk of genius and prolific intellectuals, the classical Muslim world is in its own orbit and must be measured with by a completely different set of instruments. Personally, I consider the genius of men such as Al-Farabi, Ash-Shafi'i, At-Tusi, Al-Bukhari and Al-Ghazzali (to name but a few) as irreplicable - even with the aid of advanced AI technology. Studying only the most elementary texts from any one of these authors can take several years of concerted effort and dedication before a student is prepared and ready to delve into higher forms of analytical inquiry and exegetical research of the same texts. But How did they find the time? And Where did they acquire such genius? I can honestly only conceive of it as a form of Barakah endowed upon the Ummah of Muhammad ﷺ as a form of continual wonder and guidance for the Islamicate world, especially given the youth of these authors at the time when they wrote these masterpieces and their relatively short lifespans (Imam al-Nawawwi died at the age of only 45). Nothing else truly explains the sheer volume and brilliance of thought coming out of the Islamicate world in the first millennium. Nothing. It is sufficient a miracle to consider that this magnificent revolutionary wave was inspired by a single man ﷺ who himself never wrote a single page in any book.