EVERY MUSLIM IS A SCIENTIST

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Islam itself has never considered that there is any real contradiction between science and religion.

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The late Professor Isma’il al Faruqi was a highly respected authority on Islamic studies.

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To be a Muslim is to be a scientist because you cannot be a Muslim if you do not fulfill the terms of the Khilafah. And the terms of the Khilafah are that you deal with nature and that you transform nature. Nature within you and nature in other human beings and nature outside, the trees, the mountains, the rivers, and everything; the whole of creation.

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So you’ve got to study nature to know its laws, its secrets as it were, to deal with it and transform it.

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Also another reason, nature is the creation of God. And Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala, has planted in nature His sunan, His patterns. Therefore, to discover the patterns of nature is to discover the sunan of Allah, and therefore to glorify Allah.

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These are the two reasons why every Muslim must be a scientist. This is why the Muslims have done wonders in science.

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Therefore, the Muslim goes to nature not because nature is an enemy, like for instance, the Greeks did.

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The Muslim goes to study nature not because there is a genie in nature which he is trying to master or to subdue. Not at all.

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The Muslim goes to nature because nature is a gift from Allah which Allah has made “musakkhar”, that is to say, subservient to man, in order that man may live and may fulfill the Commandments of Allah.