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forward by such a person with his ever faulty reason ever be
held superior to the words of Allah’s Prophet? How can an
ignorant person’s words ever blemish our Prophet’s commands
and words, which encompass the knowledge of health, science,
morals, justice and all branches of happiness that are written in
our books and which are respected and admired by men of
knowledge, experience and science that have come from all
parts of the world for the last fourteen hundred years, and which
no one has ever been able to find any fault or defect? Can there
be sadness, a wretchedness more pathetic than this? The
perfect wisdom is the wisdom that doesn’t go wrong and
doesn’t make any mistakes. Can an ignoramus, who bandies
thoughts about, claim that he never goes wrong – not only in
affairs that mind cannot grasp, but perhaps even in his own
daily affairs? Who will ever believe such a claim or consider
such a person as a deputy whom the nation(s) must look upon
as the most intelligent of today’s men? Let alone a single
person, today’s supposedly most intelligent Christians come
together and elect the wisest ones among them, and these
people pass laws by using all their brains and knowledge.
Then, expecting certain results, these same people grow
dissatisfied and have to change their own laws. There is one
thing on earth that is never defiled and that cannot be changed;
the Qur’ân al-kerîm of Allahu ta’âlâ and the hadîth-i-sherîfs of
Rasûlullah (that is, his blessed words).
A man of science who has thoroughly comprehended the
rules of Islam and who has observed the short history of the
scientific branches that form a basis for today’s civilization will
clearly see that in the course of history no technical
achievement, no scientific fact has ever stood against Islam, but
all have always been compatible with it. How can they be at
odds while it is Islâm which commands us to observe nature, to
study matter and energy, and to rely on reason in everything?
Allahu ta’âlâ declares in many places in the Qur’ân al-kerîm,
“Take lessons from your predecessors by observing their
lives, the path they chose, and what happened to them.
Observe the earth, the skies, the living, the lifeless and
yourselves! Study the inner part, the essence of what you
see. Find and see, understand My greatness, and the
dominion which I have over all these!”
Allahu ta’âlâ has related îmân (which is the basis of Islâm) to
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