Allāh concludes many verses in the Qurʾān—following the clarification of fundamental principles and beneficial rulings to His servants—by saying “so that you may understand”. The use of this phrase represents several matters: Among them is that it denotes that Allāh loves that we fully understand and comprehend His laws, His directives towards righteousness, and His teachings, to the extent that we commit these things to memory, understanding and comprehending them with our hearts, supporting our comprehension with our intellects, then further confirming and cementing them with action in consideration of it.

Additionally, just as He loves that we fully understand the ruling that has been specifically clarified [in the verse in question], he also loves that we understand the rest of what has been revealed unto us from the Book of Allāh and the wisdom [i.e., the Sunnah, Islamic laws and jurisprudence]. That we understand His signs that are both heard and well-known.

Furthermore, in this saying there is a potent form of evidence that proves that gaining knowledge of what Allāh has revealed unto us represents the most magnanimous way of cultivating our minds and intellects. Facilitating minds that are able to fully comprehend realities and truths, both that which is beneficial and that which is representative of harm, in a way that allows us to to supersede the harmful with the beneficial, uninfluenced by false desires or personal, self-serving, goals, nor by fantastical machinations or nonsensical foolishness which represents harm and corruption of the mind. For anyone who wishes to be acquainted with the true extent of intelligence in the creation, let him examine the minds of those who have been guided with the Qurʾān and the Sunnah and compare it to those who have strayed from it. You will find a great difference between the two. Do not surmise that the definition of intellect is confined merely to astuteness, strength of mental acuity, eloquence of speech, or ability to frequently quote others. Rather, true intellect stems from a servant’s ability to fully comprehend realities and truths that represent true benefit to him. To the extent that his knowledge encompasses these matters in all its ways and iterations, proffering him the ability to distinguish between it and that which opposes it. Recognising that which is closer to the truth in a given matter and acting in accordance with it. Abandoning that which is further from the truth or harmful. In other words, we say: The true intellect belongs to the one that is able to comprehend beneficial fields of knowledge to where he fully understands them, his intellect allowing him to completely avoid that which is harmful.