15) Objective Knowledge

I'll get back to the post on Miracles soon.  Before I do so I wanted to first give the reader a quick understanding about Knowledge.

Knowledge is of two types:
a- Objective
b- Subjective

Objective knowledge is knowledge that applies to each and every individual. Everyone can reach the same conclusions through objective knowledge and any ruling that applies to one individual applies to all.

Subjective knowledge is knowledge that may or may not apply to everyone. It may apply to some or many but not all. 

Proper judgement and balance comes through objective knowledge, not through subjective knowledge. We study objective knowledge in order to understand the universe around us and it's laws.

There are three types of objective knowledge
1- Five Senses () الحواس الخمس)
2- Intellect (العقل)
3- True Revelation or "True news" (خبر صادق)

We can all agree upon what we experience using the five senses (as long as we all have five senses functioning properly). For instance, if a red car passes in front of 100 people, they would all know that they saw a red car. No one would think they saw a blue car.
If someone holds ice that person will feel coolness of ice, no one would feel ice and think it's warm. Through the five senses we can all come to agree on certain truths.
The five senses are the lowest type of objective knowledge.

Intellect is a higher form of objective knowledge.
We can all agree on certain understandings through the intellect, such as 1 + 1 =

2. No one would object to such a fact. The intellect reasons that it is impossible for two different objects to occupy the exact same

space at the exact same time. No one with sound intellect would object to that either. Through the intellect we can all come to agree

to certain truths. If it happens that there is a difference between the five senses and the intellect, the intellect is superior.

The third and highest form on objective knowledge is True revelation.
True revelation is divided into two categories
a- Divine revelation. God is Truth, therefore God does not lie, therefore whatever God says is True.
b- Successive narration. What this means is that something has been conveyed by numerous narrators that it is impossible for them to have agreed upon an untruth. Therefore it is unquestionable in its veracity.  For instance, we all know that New Zealand exists even though many of us have never been there. Yet we've heard about it from so many different sources that it is impossible for it to be a lie.

Since true revelation is the highest form of ojbective knowledge, we would follow revelation if the intellect contradicts it.

However, one should note that there are no contradictions between each type of objective knowledge.

Through the intellect a person could reach proper understanding of what is True Revelation from what is false revelation.

[I'll come back and add more to this post soon as I'm posting it incomplete, God willing. ]