Part of Concepts of Ahl as-Sunnah (series completed)
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Summary of Sunni concepts | Concept (848) | The relationship of religion to science, reason, and civilization
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Summary of the concepts of Ahl al-Sunnah
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The relationship of religion to science, intellect, and civilization
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Indeed, the true religion is not an enemy of science, civilization, and intellect.
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Rather, it is a framework for all of that.
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Its framework and its axis that governs all affairs of life.
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And the religion of Islam was
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the comprehensive declaration of the freedom of the human intellect
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towards the material universe and its laws, which Allah, the Exalted, has subjugated for this human.
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As for false religion,
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like the religion of the Church and its superstitions in the Middle Ages,
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which was indeed an enemy of science and intellect,
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it is what causes secularists and atheistic communists to generalize
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the idea that any religion is equivalent to science, intellect, and civilization.
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So, the correct concept of the relationship of Islamic religion to science and intellect
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invalidates the specious arguments of hypocrites and secularists,
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in which they claim to attribute any backwardness of the Ummah to adherence to religion
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and steadfastness upon what the salaf of the Ummah were upon,
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those who adhere to the Sharia in creed and morals.
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And Allah, the Exalted, said concerning such people:
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“Wheresoever ye may be, death will overtake you, even though ye were in lofty towers. Yet if a happy thing befalleth them they say: This is from Allah; and if an evil thing befalleth them they say: This is of thy doing (O Muhammad). Say (unto them): All is from Allah. What is amiss with these people that they come not nigh to understand a happening?” (4:78)
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“Wheresoever ye may be, death will overtake you, even though ye were in lofty towers. Yet if a happy thing befalleth them they say: This is from Allah; and if an evil thing befalleth them they say: This is of thy doing (O Muhammad). Say (unto them): All is from Allah. What is amiss with these people that they come not nigh to understand a happening?” (4:78)
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"What is the matter with these people that they can scarcely understand a hadith?"
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And what has happened to the Ummah is the opposite of what they falsely claim.
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For when it was adhering to its religion,
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implementing its Lord's law, and striving in His way,
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it was the most advanced and greatest of nations in civilization and progress in all fields of life.
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And when it abandoned its religion and turned away from its Lord's law and striving in His way,
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it became backward and a follower of others.
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So, the cause of the Ummah's backwardness, then, is abandoning religion to adhere to it.