Nakedness is not only lacking clothing on the body but also a failure to reason appropriately and a denouncement of one's five common senses irreparably. A human being is a thinking entity endowed with dignity and self-worth—being the best of creation with the free will to choose the negative or the positive. Man, they say, is not perfect, and to err is human, but man often forgets he is naked.
In the breath of my sedated array of imperfection, I sense the noisiest voice of infallibility lecturing on the intellectual soils of silence beneath the river of the philosophy of mind and logic—logically labeling the commotion of thought and ungratefulness in adherence to one's religion, which has been a priest of prediction for sinning openly in modern times of shame and nakedness. The nakedness of the mind and brain that thinks and acts. Logic is not merely what is logically correct but also what is appropriately reasonable for a mindset that loses balance and is sometimes not at equilibrium at all.
Man must be tested because man is not perfect but always thinks he is. "We have indeed created man in the best of molds, then do We abase him (to be) the lowest of the low" (Quran 95:4-5). It has become common practice for mankind to define himself as worthy of interception from the examinations of life. Satan the devil prided himself on bowing before man, made out of common clay—but later, in the philosophy of mind, we begin to understand the grounds of this refusal regarding the status of deeds and rank from creation. As we dwell in the well of thought and quench our thirst for knowledge, I have realized that the basic teachings of the philosophy of religion, particularly Islam and Christianity, have made it customary to wrap dead bodies in clothing before burial. Do you know why? Man himself knows he is naked, so the nakedness of man follows him to his grave for being given free will but choosing to go wrongly right and rightly wrong in his words and deeds.
The nakedness of man is that he was born naked, will die naked, will be raised on the Day of Judgment naked, and will be nakedly judged for all his deeds, good or bad. Let a man ask the trees why they are naked for us but yet use their leaves and branches to cover their shame—that's because the shame itself felt ashamed when man obstinately ate the forbidden fruit and later banished himself from paradise, to kill, sin, lie, and fill the earth with havoc for being naked and shameless. Yet man will boastfully say: "Do you know me? Do you know who I am?" The fact is, my brother, tell me, who are you? The fire declared itself better than clay—when the silent light that could have said is better than the two had always adored and obeyed his Creator.
Pride has diagnosed man with a long sickness of mind, causing him to forget that he is from the earth and to it he shall return—from the earth we came, and to it we shall return. Therefore, the best dress and gift to take along to our graves are not exotic cars, luxuries, wealth, or the pride we nurture in our respective bank accounts of pomposity, but our good deeds.
Goodness is good, but being good is just too good food for the mind to always reflect on the day you will leave your own house and bed that you said you own and bought with your own money—only to be buried in a narrow grave, whether you like it or not. You have the utmost right to remain silent before you are activated to silence by honorable angels who will not only epitomize your noise but resound its collection. No one can escape death, and everyone will die, even the angel of death. Collective intelligence is the ability to recognize the right from the wrong, the learned from the ignorant, and the weak from the strong.
Before you argue or quarrel, first—before you expose the nakedness of others—check the clothes you're wearing. If only you had, you would begin to understand that man is a mirror. If you cannot see your back while looking at your image in a mirror, somebody else can show it to you in the minor. If logic is the ability to distinguish good from bad, and that which is good has been made clear from what is bad—any mind that can't differentiate these two things needs a philosophical checkup to better rationalize its thinking in an ever-logical standard.
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