Eighth to the Sixteenth Century - Rashid Islamic Center

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Afterword: Is Islamic Science Possible? • 229are the claims of the opponents of Islamic science really true? Stillanother way of asking the same question is: Is Islamic science reallypossible in the contemporary world?An affirmative answer to this question is not another book orarticle on Islamic science, but an actually discernible and livingtradition of science that clearly stands out against the ubiquitouslypresent science and technology based on the principles firstoutlined by Western philosophers and scientists during theEuropean Renaissance and since then put into practice by successivegenerations. This science and its applications have not only givenhumanity certain useful discoveries, techniques, and products, buthave simultaneously reshaped life in its own image. It has done so byremoving God from the center of the cosmos and by restructuringthe entire rhythm of life against nature, against all that is profoundand worthy of constant reflection. That it has done so needs nomore proof than the loud and clear lament of the Earth. Oneneeds only to look at the readily available data produced with thehelp of instruments and tools developed by this same science. Thisdata is real, verifiable, and unambiguous in stating the sad tale ofdevastation suffered by mountains and oceans, rainforests, rivers,ecology, and the ozone layer.That it is modern science and technology which have empoweredhuman beings to cause a large-scale, unprecedented devastation tothe natural world is uncontestable, but it can be—and has been—argued that it is the wrong use of science and technology and notmerely modern science and technology per se, which has caused thisdestruction. This argument is, however, not valid, because a sciencesevered from the Creator could have produced no other result. Sucha science and its products cannot but be handmaiden to a greeddriveneconomy and devastating tools in the hands of those whopossess them.Modern science is not a stand alone enterprise; it is a subset ofa larger system based on a particular view of nature and humanity.Those who have developed it have done so in a manner most befittingtheir concept of nature and humanity. It has been pressed into theservice of the system from which it emerged. One needs only to feelin one’s heart the agony and suffering of millions of human beings
230 • The Making of Islamic Scienceat the moment when their lives were being extinguished by deadlybombs dropped from the skies to understand the true nature of themodern enterprise of science and technology. It is simply not possibleto invent a cruise missile and keep it in the closet. Those who makeweapons of mass destruction and place them in the hands of menand women who command their use are equally responsible for thedeaths of young babes and fragile old men and women who havebeen annihilated in the very act of living their everyday lives in theirhomes and places of work. Nations empowered by modern scienceand technology could not have behaved in any other manner thanthe particular way they have, for to possess power of this kind meansits usage is most probable. And those who have discovered thesescientific principles and developed these deadly technologies cannotescape the responsibility for what they have done.If the large-scale devastation witnessed by humanity and naturalhabitats during the twentieth century has taught us anything, it isimperative that a new awareness emerge in the scientific community.In order to reclaim a saner vision of life and death, the scientificcommunity cannot continue to compartmentalize faith and science;science and faith must form a single and unified spiritual, ethical,and moral commitment, the latter informing the former. Whileall believing scientists have a responsibility to reexamine what theyhave made possible by providing to certain people tools and meansto wrought unprecedented destruction of human and natural life,Muslim scientists have an added role in this reexamination, for theyare supposed to be the witnesses, the carriers, and the true examplesof the message of the Noble QurāĀn.At the practical level, the most significant impediment to theemergence of a global community of Muslim scientists—and henceIslamic science—is the severance of Muslim scientists from their ownreligious and intellectual traditions. Since they invariably emergefrom secular educational institutions, their education and trainingalienate them from their own tradition. This is not to say that Muslimscientists are not pious Muslims, but to point out that they are notable to holistically integrate their faith and profession; their scienceremains firmly rooted in a vision other than that of Islam. Madrasa-
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