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The
Holy Quran has made obligatory on the part of every Muslim to think and
research. So it is the duty of a conscious Muslim to be conversant with the
Universal mechanism because it is akin to the contemplation on the Divine
verses. Of course, the observation of the Scientific facts, following the
contemplation of Divine verses, leads the thinker to believe in Allah. The
following traditions lay a good deal of emphasis on the knowledge and research:
1. Obtain
the knowledge whenever you find it.
2. A
Clairvoyant saying is the lost asset of a believer, so he should take it
wherever it is available.
3. Contemplation
of one hour is better than the hardship of six decades.
4. The
quest of knowledge is the best service to God.
5. The
knowledge is the life of Islam and pillar of religion.
6. lt.
is the duty of every male and female Muslim to acquire the knowledge, so you
should seek the knowledge though it is in China.
Hence,
one who wants to dip his hands in worldly benefits, he should seek the
knowledge, and, one Who want to secure the boons of the life hereafter, he too
should seek the knowledge.
The
judicious and sagacious instructions of the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) had a very
positive impact on his followers (R.A.) they thoroughly applied themselves for
the obtainment of knowledge and erudition and got them from all the possible
hideouts. Their superiority in the knowledge made them the pioneers of science
and Arts. The Muslims did not lay the foundation of their knowledge on superstitions
or the erroneous presumptions or speculations, but they produced the latest
scientific research in every field, based on their vast experience and keen
observation. This resulted that in Muslim families were born so many physicians
and astrologists and other scientists, the prominents among them are Jaber
Al-farabi, Zakriya Al-Razi, Avecenna, Khuworzami, Omer Khayyam, Naseeruddin
Toosi, Abdul Hassan, Ibn Mohammed Al-Qazweeni, Fakhruddin Razi, abul Qasim
Al-Bairooni, Ibn Khaldoun, Imam Ghazali etc. They added new chapters to Science
and Arts with their onerous dedication. All these correspond to the period when
whole Europe was enshrouded in superstitions. The credit goes to the Muslim
Scientists for the invention of Mariner's Compass, gun powder and paper. They
were the first to attempt to aviate and shine the stones to a mirror. They were
inventors of telescope and watermill in addition to the Braille to enable the
blinds to read, Algebra, geometry and trigonometry. They prepared the list of
stars and their shape and charts. they did the menstruation of all degrees of
the Globe and discovered its circumference. Likewise they designed Aqua-solar
watches and invented the pendulum to measure the time. They introduced the
printing technology and brought about a revolution in Medicine and surgery and
allied branches.
The
sapient instructions of the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) were etched so deep in the
hearth of the Muslims that they counted the knowledge their asset and property
and used to acquire it wherever it was possible. Thousands of Muslim experts
added new dimensions to the knowledge balance of the mankind. Going through the
writings of those eminent authors, every educated person of this Century
catches one distinct mark, and it is non availability of any contradiction to
the Islam teaching throughout their scientific research, and no conflict is
noticeable there. When the fame of these versatile Muslim authors spread all
over the World, it came as an impetus for the establishment of Universities in
the countries far away from the Muslim Countries. The qualified Circles in
Paris, Oxford, Italy and western Europe were highly impressed by the Arab
Scientists.
To-day
when the unbiased thinner ponders over the creation of the Universe and the
secrets, latent therein, and links the thread of his thinking to the verses of
the Holy Quran, he is faced by only one fact that science is a characteristic
of the man by birth, and indeed when a thinker determines the correct position
of science, he becomes cognizant of the fact that science is actually an
undoubted link-road to the realities of creation and domination, life and death
and all the relevant secrets. The Holy Quran has very clearly mentioned that
Allah made Adam His viceroy and taught him all the science. Here viceroy ship
means the utilization of special Divine Authorities. The question of such
utilization does not arise till the
cognizance of the rules and regulations regarding the utilization of these
authorities. the purpose behind teaching Adam Science (The Names) was to train
him how the authorities are to be used. To sum up, Adam was made cognizant of
science of universe Domination or subjection so that this Special Cognizance
may be instrumental for him to control the universe. From scientific viewpoint,
the knowledge of Science is the knowledge of the universe (cosmography). The
cardinal object of the Science is the knowledge is to make a search about and
their quantities, all of them moving very systematically, and it is the
movement which keeps a thing alive. From the scientific viewpoint, the function
of science is to conquer all powers of the universe and to utilize the
treasures of earth and skies. In the Holy Quran Allah said that he brought down
the iron, which has lot of benefits for the people. When we think about the
scientific benefits of the iron for human being, we conclude that every
scientific invention has direct or indirect relevance to the iron. The iron has emerged a very important
component in railways, airplanes, wireless system and in every scientific
break-through. Thus the man is benefiting himself a lot through the iron as
declared by Allah. When we think about
the conscious angles right from Adam till now, we are convinced to see that
every function of the man is more or less a science and that the scientific
function guarantees the accomplishment of all human needs. All the human trades
like industries, handicrafts, construction and machines are the result of a
scientific function (research and development). The study in the holy Quran
provides us with the fact that the practical science has reached us through
several things. For instance, we learnt the farming and cultivation through
Adam, the ship building through Noah, the iron industries through Dawood, the
medicine through Christ and the wireless system through Solomon (Peace be upon
all of them).
Once
Europe was bereft of knowledge, and was thickly covered under the darkness of
illiteracy, and because the Muslims were strictly adherent to the teachings of
their last Prophet (P.B.U.H.), they distinguished themselves as a nation. On
the contrary , as soon as they swerved from the path of research and
development in the light of their Prophet's teachings, they immersed
individually and collectively in the deep trench of illiteracy, while the
nation, which adhered to the acquisition of knowledge and scientific
development, they topped all the nations. And this is the Divine Law as Allah
says in the Holy Quran! Allah does not bring a change to the condition of the
nation until they bring change to what they are involved in.
So
it is the crying need of the time that we should change ourselves from
remaining idiot and good-for-nothing children to righteous and wordy ones and
enable ourselves for the heritage, left by our predecessors so that we can
salvage ourselves from the precipices of the gloom. Our Prophet (P.B.U.H.) has
truly said that the contemplation of one hour is better than the worship of six
decades, and that it was the duty of every male and female Muslim to acquire
the knowledge, so you should seek the knowledge though it is in china.
KHWAJA SHAMS-UD-DEEN AZEEMI
IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, THE MERCIFUL, THE BENEVOLENT
Dedicated to those scientists, who are inching towards the cognizance of the facts, spotlighted by Allah Almighty, in the wake of their intelligent observation for the top vertex of scientific achievement, which is not other than the "Disastrous end of the Universe". And this is probably during 15th century of Lunar calendar.
