What Is The Full Capacity Of The Brain Used For

Bismillahi Rahmani Raheem, Assalamu Alaikum.

Often you hear scientists say we are not using the full potential of the brain, so what does that mean? we are in a unique position to explain this because we have experienced it, while contemplating this subject Rasul Allah (saws) affirmed to us this is what we experienced from Allah in the past and this is what the Brain was created for.

We should first affirm that scientists are right in their assumption that we are not using the full capacity of our brain, so what else did Allah create it for? Understand, Adam (as) was created in Jannah not earth, then when He (as) made the mistake Allah sent Him (as) down to earth and placed upon Him (as) and His (as) children a Barzakh (veil) that stopped them from seeing the unseen world that Angels and Jinn existed in.

So man was designed to see Ghayb from the start and this lower existence of ours is us living in a diminished capacity, part of our brain is not being used to see and process what is happening in Ghayb.

More specifically, the brain is a massive parallel processing computer more powerful than the world’s most powerful computers, it is designed to calculate and react to multiple inputs from our body and senses at the same time, huge amounts of inputs, in order to translate our reality to us.

The missing aspect from that equation now is the part it uses to process the inputs from seeing ghayb persistently, and living a higher form of reality like the Angels and a much higher reality than the Jinn, but what is that like and what is the full capacity of the brain?

In terms of intelligence it is like the most intelligent person we know today, it is not a super human like scientists imagine, but what is added to our intelligence to improve us is scope, our ability to understand the larger picture in all things, our ability to process it from not just physical life but spiritual life and understand the meaning behind everything and translate that into the reality we would then be experiencing, that is what the brain is not doing right now because we cannot see Ghayb.

(He will be told), “You were completely heedless of this day (of judgment). We have removed the veil from your eyes and your vision will now be sharp and strong (able to see ghayb)”. (50:22)

This will result in man being able to understand the highest forms of metaphors in things “to Allah belong the highest Similitudes. He is the Mighty, the Wise” (16:60), you can not see Allah fully without this.

“to Allah applies the highest similitude,”

“and for Allah is the highest description.”

(these are less accurate translations of the verse that add to its scope)
When man reaches this it will naturally result in a more enlightened human being, but we will never surpass the Angels in raw intelligence, that is their natural playground, and we will never be super humans like is being exaggerated, but the wisdom that would come from us would be profound and that in worth surpasses the intelligence of Angels, like the CEO of a company who sees the bigger picture and gains wisdom from that is worth more than the engineer who is designing the product from his raw knowledge.

At the moment because Allah has removed the Barzakh from us permanently we are functioning at a higher capacity than normal but it is not optimal, not even close, that will be given to us in the Akhira because that requires a pure spiritual environment, you see the mind requires a clean spiritual environment to function like this and that means an earth free from the pollution of sin, or rather human acts that cause harm at the subatomic level, insha Allah this is the subject of an upcoming work we are writing, a tafsir to Surah al Rahman (“Do not transgress the balance” of the earth or it will unbalance the universe, mans intellectual landscape).

THE MOST GRACIOUS
has imparted the Qur’an [unto man].
He has created man:
He has imparted unto him articulate thought and speech (intelligence). (55:1-5)

Once in a dream we saw Rasul Allah (saws), this was many years ago when our life was in danger and He (saws) wanted to give us advice to help save us, we woke in the dream and saw Him (saws) He (saws) then began to speak to us in pure classical Arabic, the highest most eloquent form of it which was His (saws) natural speech, this is more articulate than what you see in Ahadith, it is well known among the scholars and they have recorded some of it in their works, the prophets speech is like what they have with them but more perfect because hearing it they seem to be stuttering in comparison to Him (saws).

What was more miraculous that night than understanding His (saws) words without effort or prior knowledge of it was that when we replied to Him (saws) we replied in the same dialect, in a manner almost as eloquent as Him (saws), the Angels where able to elevate us spiritually to achieve this.

This Rasul Allah (saws) later said was Allah allowing us to use the full potential of our brain, it is not the supper human envisioned by scientists but man has the capacity to learn at first sight like the Angels and have a lasting memory like them, you can extrapolate from that what man can and cannot do.

Shaykh Rami Al Rifai.

“O you who have believed, obey Allah and obey the Messenger and those in authority among you.” (4:59)