The steps to belief (or disbelief)
Doubting → wavering → thinking → discussing → preferring the belief or the disbelief → believing → confirming the belief → positive action along with the belief → sure belief or certainty.
The thinking, pondering and contemplating should be by a single person or only two friends who truly and sincerely intend to reach the truth.
It can't be more by than two persons, because this will lead to confusion, and many ideas will then be displayed at the same time, and this will lead to loss of concentration.
This is in the Quran 34: 46
قُلْ إِنَّمَا أَعِظُكُم بِوَاحِدَةٍ أَن تَقُومُوا لِلَّهِ مَثْنَى وَفُرَادَى ثُمَّ تَتَفَكَّرُوا مَا بِصَاحِبِكُم مِّن جِنَّةٍ إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا نَذِيرٌ لَّكُم بَيْنَ يَدَيْ عَذَابٍ شَدِيدٍ
The explanation:
(Say: "I only advise you to one [point]:
(Say: "I only advise you to one [point]:
to be concerned about [discerning the religion of] God;
[and to go for this purpose] two by two and one by one,
then to think [and realize] that there is no madness in your man [: Mohammed];
he is only a warner to you [of a punishment] by the hands [of angels] of severe chastisement.)
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