What we learn from the explanations given by the philosophers and the scholars about the recognition of God is that they have two opinions:

A. According to some Ulema nature means is a clear intellectual proof of a person attaining intellectual maturity and observing the presence of being and then he understand their mysteries. It is then that he realizes that it is impossible for such a complex system to come into being and exist without a great and knowledgeable entity. This intellect is called the natural intellect because man is able to reach his desired objective without the help of any teacher. He says, “The whole is bigger than the part” and this is a clear fact so no proof is required for it. In the same way he surmises, that when two things are compatible to a third then they must be compatible between themselves.

Such things in logic connotations are called “understood” and they have been divided into 6 categories by the logicians:

Superiority (Priority), observation, experiments, continuity, understanding and nature. Nature or intellect does not reach confirmation through imaginations. It needs a go between and that intermediary is present in human minds.

The meaning of nature which is more pertinent to our discussion is that humans can understand it without any proof if an object is present before him. When he sees a flower bloom on a branch he immediately discerns its beauty and is aroma and there is no intermediary needed.

B. This is because he sees that the flower is beautiful and fragrant.

The natural understanding of God is in this way. When a person envisages the light of “god in the depth of his heart, and hears the truth that enjoins him to the origin which is the complete perfection then he needs no proof to understand the same. It is like understanding or appreciating the beauty of a flower and its fragrance which too needs no proof.