Believers of God, thoughts on this amazing quote...?

Question:The first religious obligation of every intelligent boy who comes of age, as marked by years or by the dreams of puberty, is to form the intention of reasoning as soundly as he can to an awareness that the world is originated.
Abū ‘l-Ma’āli al-Juwaynī (1028-1085)

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: The first religious obligation of every intelligent boy who comes of age, as marked by years or by the dreams of puberty, is to form the intention of reasoning as soundly as he can to an awareness that the world is originated.
Abū ‘l-Ma’āli al-Juwaynī (1028-1085)

I love that. Alas, most cultures today are so obsessed with control, they seldom teach our youth to think, to reason soundly, to self-awareness. In my opinion, even post-secondary education (at least here in the US) appears to have something other than self-awareness, learning, and ability to reason as a goal.

To me this sounds very narrow and selective. Should ONLY intelligent people , should only BOYS , have this inquisitiveness? What about all the others girls , women , average men and boys? Don`t they have the same right as the others to know the truth?
Truth is for everybody and Truth is amazingly simple. Awareness or consciousness is there at all times . recognotion of this awareness is what is needed and that can be kindled by a good teacher.

It is close to truth, but no prize for it.

The first obligation of every intelligent boy when he comes to self-awareness, is to form the intention of reasoning as soundly as he can to an awareness that existence exists.

Aristotle put it this way: "That there never was a time when there was not motion, and never will be a time when there will not be motion" (252b 6-8).

This says the same thing as Aristotle:
"Existence is a self-sufficient primary. It is not a product of a supernatural dimension, or of anything else. There is nothing antecedent to existence, nothing apart from it—and no alternative to it. Existence exists—and only existence exists. Its existence and its nature are irreducible and unalterable."
Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, 148