I do not think you got my message right either. I said that we must use our brain to determine the truth about the fundamentals of the religion. For example, do i belive in my mind and heart that there is ONE God or do i just follow what i am told or what i have inherited*.* Once you agree upon the fundamentals using your mind then you submit yourself unconditionaly to Quran and the Prophet i.e. the message and the messenger of the God. Quran states that the Messenger has more rights over the believers then they have on themselves i.e. pure submission, the type you are refering to. Pre-requisite to all this is using the gift of aqal.
Fair. I might not have gotten your message.
The answer to bold sentence is no.
You (not you specifically but people who believe they use brain to confirm the existence of One God) do not really believe on one God based on brain work.
The logical gramework you were given is based on what you were told in very early age.
Lets face it. A lot of people are actually following religion based on their early teachings and then they follow same course while using brain. it is hard to disconnect from early teachings.
A lot of muslims are muslims since they were born in Islamic family.
A lot of hindus are hindus since they were born in Hindu family.
Now: If one muslims today was born in hindu family and vice versa. What would have been the situation?
A (muslim) would have been hindu and (hindu) born in muslim family would be a muslim arguing with some hindu for his version of One God belief.
So my question was what really made you who you are today?
What did you do to achieve that?
You say brain and I say your heart.
No one can win an argument based on brain work.
You can never convince a person not to eat pork based on any brain work or logic.
Only thing you will end up with. Either saying you belive it siince it is in the book and has been told to others before. Besides that there is likely chance that you might even start doubting yourself why you as muslims should not eat pork.
Aqal is too limited tool to get to religious matters.
Peace.