“Read! In the name of your Lord Who created.” [96:1-2]Maybe I’m wrong. Muslims are ahead of the others in scientific discoveries and developing new technologies. Maybe I’m delusional. Muslims do make use of their eyes to read useful materials, and brains to comprehend and apply knowledge towards making this world a better place. Maybe I’m alone, in thinking that Muslims nowadays are passive, unthankful lot, who loves to do nothing but complain, blame others, fight with each other and hope for God’s grace just because ‘believe’ is what their mouths say five times a day.
"Do men think that they will be left alone on saying, "We believe", and that they will not be tested?" [29:2]
Maybe Muslims are not just consumers of technologies developed by ‘non-Muslims’ but also thinkers, researchers and manufacturers themselves. Let's think about our hand phone (with Wifi and GPS), computer (and the fantastic softwares), internet (with Google and emedicine), cars (and buses, LRT, lorries etc), ATM machine, atenolol (metformin and other fantastic drugs) etc. Do these things just fall from the sky, or do human beings need to have a curious mind to ponder on what’s best to make use of the resources that we have around - the gravity, raw materials etc?
Yes, there once lived Ibn Sina, Ibn Khaldun, Al-Khawarizmi and friends. But these highly respected scholars are … well, no more in sight. So now let’s do our part. Shall we?
Read what Tun Dr Mahathir has to say about Science and Islam h e r e.
[2:164] “Behold! in the creation of the heavens and the earth; in the alternation of the night and the day; in the sailing of the ships through the ocean for the profit of mankind; in the rain which Allah Sends down from the skies, and the life which He gives therewith to an earth that is dead; in the beasts of all kinds that He scatters through the earth; in the change of the winds, and the clouds which they Trail like their slaves between the sky and the earth;- (Here) indeed are Signs for a people that are wise (يَعْقِلُونَ)"
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and oh, i forgot to quote this ironically oh-so-popular verse in the Muslim community :
"...GOD will not change the condition of a people unless they change themselves first. But when GOD wills a people's punishment, there can be no turning it back, nor will they find, besides Him, any to protect" [13:11]
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