معرفت

Critical thinking is a new scientific concept that has taken into consideration in the current century.The importance of critical thinking is such that some have considered it as one of the main goals of education. The holy Qur'an also has paid attention to mental processes in many cases with different expressions. The question that arises is that, what are the applications of the concept of critical thinking and its elements (or components) in the Qur'anic literature. Using an analytical method and referring to Quranic verses this research seeks to study the position of the critical thinking and its coordination with Quranic concepts. There is not a certain concept that contains the whole elements of critical thinking, but the components of critical thinking are mentioned separately in the holy Qur'an. The root words "fiq" jurisprudence, "nabata" deriving, "hajaja" argument and "nadar" opinion related to the component of inference and derivation of critical thinking, and the root words "hukm" verdict and "qada" judgment have a close semantic coordination with the component of the evaluation, judgment, and comparison of critical thinking.