Is the human intellect alone enough of a standard
for moral & spiritual guidance?

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَـٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

 Before I begin, I believe it is essential to note that the Utilization of al-Aql (human rationale/intellect) is divided between idaaree (jurisprudential order, administrative) and shar’i (divine revelation). When it comes to the use of al-Aql in the jurisprudential affairs of this world, it is more common that the reliance of al-Aql will be utilized more so than with regards to knowledge of religion, because religious truths and reality is not based on human rationale or the intellect but rather based on wahi (revelation). But with idaaree, the base supposition regarding it is that it is not constrained and can be utilized more freely UNLESS an action performed by the aql would violate a legal ruling. In the following article, the topic will be centered more so on the shar’i aspect of the use of al-Aql, since after all, the people who propagate the use of al-Aql are doing so in the realm of defining truth and falsehood, what is right and wrong, which is religious based, not jurisprudential based.