Don't waste the mind...

The mind by definition is the ability for rational thought, and the mind is a process of the brain, and I believe every normal human being is born with a brain, but amazingly and perhaps amusingly, we still see normal people doing abnormal things.

Well, I am not an expert in the field of psychology and I am not pretending to be one, but I know for a fact that no matter how extraordinary your mind is, if enslaved, fettered or made useful in an inferior capacity, it will create nothing but ordinary and mostly irrational thoughts, just like an unfettered ordinary mind can create extraordinary thoughts.

This is why when someone says something that's logically sound or behaves in a way that's not contradictory or otherwise absurd even in difficult circumstances, we say the person's indeed shown presence of mind.

The mind is expected to be our central force in thought, and therefore expected to communicate inspiration to the will, and to direct what we say or do.

In other words, the mind should control our emotions and behaviours. If there's an imbalance, we'll tend to do things that are without logical rationale, because our misguided instincts, guts and inclinations would've taken over.

The weaker you're in the control of your mind, the more vulnerable you're to the artificial induction of things and believes that you should or would otherwise have rejected; a weakness exploited by certain religious and political institutions.

Granted, the ultimate permission of overstanding is God's, but God Himself wants us to use our common sense in search of that overstanding, hence He said in the gracious Qur'an: "Surely the worst of beasts in God's sight are those that are deaf and dumb and do not reason." (8:22) "And He lays abomination upon those who do not reason." (10:100)