Part of Concepts of Ahl as-Sunnah — Collected Episodes (series completed)
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Summary of Sunni concepts | 35- Concepts about secular sciences (527-533)
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A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah.
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Islamic civilization and the worldly sciences.
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Islamic civilization in various worldly sciences.
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Such as engineering, medicine, and astronomy.
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As well as urban planning and others.
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It preceded Western civilization by centuries.
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It is the foundation upon which the West built its modern civilization.
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Yet they do not mention this, nor do they attribute credit to those who deserve it.
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Among those who were fair, they acknowledged that modern Western civilization.
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Has its origins in a civilization that preceded it.
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However, they do not call it Islamic civilization.
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Instead, they call it the civilization of the East or the civilization of the Arabs.
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Even though most of the inventors under the shadow of Islamic civilization.
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Were not Arabs.
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In the West’s concealment of this fact.
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There is a deliberate exclusion of the role of Islam and the Muslims.
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In developing life and cultivating the earth.
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The term "human sciences."
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Appeared in the West in opposition to divine science.
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Which the Catholic Church used to advocate.
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Then it moved to the East and the lands of the Muslims.
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And it is still in use.
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It refers to the sciences related to man in general.
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Such as psychology, educational sciences, and sociology.
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And so on.
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If the West intends by this terminology.
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To separate the discourse on these sciences.
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From what Allah has legislated regarding them.
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Then this is false and invalid.
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For there is no one more knowledgeable about creation than Allah.
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Allah the Almighty says:
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“Should He not know what He created? And He is the Subtile, the Aware.” (67:14)
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However, if we limit this terminology.
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To merely distinguishing these sciences.
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While acknowledging what Allah has legislated regarding them.
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Then we say.
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There is no dispute over terminology.
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The encouragement to study the science of history.
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The word of Allah the Almighty:
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"Nor was the Torah and the Gospel revealed."
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"Except after him."
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"Do you not then use your reason?"
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It contains an encouragement to study the science of history.
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And a clarification that it is a way to refute.
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Many false statements.
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And claims and opposition.
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To what history establishes.
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Based on this.
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It is a science that has a direct relationship.
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With the sciences of the Sharia.
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And is not a purely worldly science.
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The sources of history.
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Historians today.
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Do not rely on anything except written inscriptions.
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On rocks and walls alone.
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This is due to the distortion.
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Which they have proven exists in the Torah and the Gospel.
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This is a severe deficiency.
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For history has many sources.
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The most important of them all.
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Is the Book of Allah the Almighty.
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To which falsehood cannot come.
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“Falsehood cannot come at it from before it or from behind it. (It is) a revelation from the Wise, the Owner of Praise.” (41:42)
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Then the authentic Prophetic Sunnah.
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Then the documented historical records.
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Then come the other sources.
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Such as the reports of the People of the Book.
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And what the chroniclers say.
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And written inscriptions.
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And the like.
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Connecting worldly sciences.
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With remembering the Creator of the universe.
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Makes them an act of worship to Allah.
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If the worldly sciences.
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Which research the universe.
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And its laws and patterns.
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And its powers and resources.
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And its secrets and energies.
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If all these sciences were connected.
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To remembering the Creator of the universe.
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And feeling His majesty and greatness.
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And His knowledge and power.
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And His wisdom and mercy.
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They would immediately become an act of worship to the Creator of the universe.
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Life would be set straight by these sciences.
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And directed toward Allah the Almighty.
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Allah the Almighty says:
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"Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and the earth."
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"And the alternation of the night and the day."
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“Lo! In the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the difference of night and day, and the ships which run upon the sea with that which is of use to men, and the water which Allah sendeth down from the sky, thereby reviving the earth after its death, and dispersing all kinds of beasts therein, and (in) the ordinance of the winds, and the clouds obedient between heaven and earth: are signs (of Allah's Sovereignty) for people who have sense.” (2:164)
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"With that which benefits the people."
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"And what Allah has sent down from the sky."
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“Lo! In the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the difference of night and day, and the ships which run upon the sea with that which is of use to men, and the water which Allah sendeth down from the sky, thereby reviving the earth after its death, and dispersing all kinds of beasts therein, and (in) the ordinance of the winds, and the clouds obedient between heaven and earth: are signs (of Allah's Sovereignty) for people who have sense.” (2:164)
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"After its death."
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"And dispersed therein every [kind of] moving creature."
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“Lo! In the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the difference of night and day, and the ships which run upon the sea with that which is of use to men, and the water which Allah sendeth down from the sky, thereby reviving the earth after its death, and dispersing all kinds of beasts therein, and (in) the ordinance of the winds, and the clouds obedient between heaven and earth: are signs (of Allah's Sovereignty) for people who have sense.” (2:164)
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"Between the heaven and the earth."
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"Are signs for a people who use reason."
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And in the last verses of Surah Al 'Imran.
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Which resembles the previous verse.
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Allah the Almighty says thereafter:
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“Such as remember Allah, standing, sitting, and reclining, and consider the creation of the heavens and the earth, (and say): Our Lord! Thou createdst not this in vain. Glory be to Thee! Preserve us from the doom of Fire.” (3:191)
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"And upon their sides."
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“Such as remember Allah, standing, sitting, and reclining, and consider the creation of the heavens and the earth, (and say): Our Lord! Thou createdst not this in vain. Glory be to Thee! Preserve us from the doom of Fire.” (3:191)
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“Such as remember Allah, standing, sitting, and reclining, and consider the creation of the heavens and the earth, (and say): Our Lord! Thou createdst not this in vain. Glory be to Thee! Preserve us from the doom of Fire.” (3:191)
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“Such as remember Allah, standing, sitting, and reclining, and consider the creation of the heavens and the earth, (and say): Our Lord! Thou createdst not this in vain. Glory be to Thee! Preserve us from the doom of Fire.” (3:191)
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But the materialistic, disbelieving orientation.
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Severs the connection between the universe and its Creator.
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Therefore, science often turns.
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Into a curse and a plague that destroys human life.
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Darwinism.
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In the year 1859 AD.
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The book *On the Origin of Species* was produced.
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By its author, Charles Darwin.
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Causing a stir that no other book had caused.
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In all of European history.
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The book revolves around the hypothesis of the evolution of life.
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In living organisms.
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From simplicity to precision and complexity.
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And that the origin of living organisms with millions of cells.
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Is a lowly, single-celled organism.
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Then it evolved into species from which grew.
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Those that were able to adapt to nature.
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According to what was called the law of natural selection.
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And the survival of the fittest.
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And it continued in development and the production of new, advanced species.
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Among the most advanced of which were the apes.
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From which resulted an organism more advanced than them.
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Which is man.
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While acknowledging that there is a missing link.
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Between the ape and man.
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This conjecture was called.
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Darwin’s theory.
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Or the theory of evolution.
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In reality, it is nothing more than a mere hypothesis.
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Based on conjecture and guesswork.
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And it does not rely on any proof.
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That would qualify it to become a theory.
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Let alone a fact.
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And along with this hypothesis contradicting.
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What the divine laws have unanimously agreed upon.
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That the origin of man is our father Adam.
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And his wife who was created from him.
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Many scientists of Darwin’s era also rejected it.
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As well as the verifying scholars.
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From his era to the current era.
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Even with the attempts of those who cling.
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To it to defend and modify it.
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To avoid the criticisms directed at it.
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Reasons for the spread of Darwin’s theory.
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Although it is assumed that.
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Opposing Darwin’s theory.
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Would be enough to eliminate it.
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And abolish it from its foundation.
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Yet it became popular and spread throughout the entire world.
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Indeed, its teaching was imposed in school curricula.
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Everywhere.
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The reason for this is two things.
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First, it is a hypothesis that appeared in a period.
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Of conflict between science and the Christian religion.
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In Europe, represented by the Church.
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And its tyranny at that time.
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So they championed it to get rid of this tyranny.
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Especially since the Christian view.
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Distorted regarding man and his creation.
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Claims that he is a prisoner to the sin.
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Of his father Adam.
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And that there is no savior for him.
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Except belief in the Son of God.
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Who sacrificed himself for the salvation of humanity.
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As they claimed.
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Second.
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Its adoption, promotion, and dissemination.
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Vigorously to corrupt humanity.
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And for many deviations to result from it.
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Such as atheism and the collapse of religion.
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The denial of purpose and intent in creation.
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The animalization of man and his drowning in sex.
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The dominance of dialectical materialism.
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And so on.
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The second protocol says.
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From the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
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"Do not imagine that our statements."
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"Are hollow words."
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"And notice here."
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"That the success of Darwin, Marx, and Nietzsche."
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"We have arranged beforehand."
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And the immoral impact.
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Of the trends of these sciences.
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On the Ummah’s thought.
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Will be clear to us for certain.
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And we praise Allah that this hypothesis.
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Misguided and misleading.
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Its star has faded in the current era.
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And most of the people of knowledge have rejected it.
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And it has become a thing of the past.
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Especially after the discovery of chromosomes.
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In the cell.
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And the proof of what is known.
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As the genetic code.
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Which was not known in Darwin’s time.