WELL ! i guess we r heading 2wards an endless debate........NA TUM SAMJHAY NA HUM SAMJHAY...........lets put an end to it.....me out
well ,
I think we need thinkers and philosophy, it doesnt harm relegion but sometime proves the hidden meaning.
its completely wrong , now that we have done enough thinking or we got the books from Allah, we just stop thinking and stick to what have got. I think knowledge in these books still need to be discovered.
at the same time the philosophy or research give us new ways og going head, new ways of thinking. one can still do that living in relegious boundries.
Personally I feel that philosophy and religion are mutually exclusive. A philosopher by definition and by example is an individual who does not care for religion. He/she may be agnostic or even an atheist, but definitely not an individual that follows an established religion.
Both are needed to function in today’s world in my opinion. A philosopher theorizes on the actions of man and why man does what he does etc. Religion gives purpose and cause to those actions. A philosopher attempts to link those two together, or in many cases as shown by modern history disregards the cause and purpose from religion and attribute man made qualities and thoughts instead.
Religion and philosophy in my opinion are complete opposite to each other. One chooses to explain action through divine intervention; the other is a man made concept to provide humans with a sense of control over their actions and lives.
Just because we have the Qur'an doesn't mean we have to stop thinking. As a Muslim I have to constantly check my actions no matter how small to know whether they are halal or haram. Much progress has been made in the fields of science and technology. We have cloning, stem cell research etc and we need to know whether they are halal or haram. In order to do this we must first understand for example cloning and then apply it to the text i.e. Qur'an, Hadith, Ijma, Qiyas. THis doesn't mean we need an example where the Prophet(saw) or his companions(ra) cloned anyone to say its halal, rather, we have to check whether the method of cloning and the result of cloning is halal. This process is called Ijtihad.
Philosophy is the love of knowledge and does not contradict Islam, however philosophy as understood today is the promotion of secularism and atheism. Philosophy does not give us a unique way of thinking. As rational human beings we can easily come to the conclusion that there is a creator. The concept of 'blind faith' is something that Allah does not require so why do we always insist on this? Allah (swt) requires us to think about the creation of the universe and on many occasions Allah(swt) asks us the question 'Do you not see how?'