ISLAM a sceintific religion

[desert_bird]

@psyah

I’m not sure myself. I would like to understand why there is a shying away of science compared with religion. Perhaps it is a symptom of secularism?
Knowledge is the purpose behind science and so does Islam promote the seeking of knowledge. Just as scriptural verses are misunderstood so are many phenomena and people pave patterns to connect two things that happen in order to explain to themselves the nature of those things. Verily, religion is the science of the soul and realisation of God. However, ‘science’ as a taught subject which should actually be called ‘natural science’ is void of the concept of ‘soul’ because it cannot be measured by objective means. However, we measure things subjectively all the time because objective measurement does not cover the scope of belief and experience perception it is covered by the realms of religion, so though Islam may not necessarily be called ‘science’ it is however the tool that allowed ‘modern natural science’ flourish, because it is responsible for the precepts that govern the modes of obtaining knowledge and recording them to be utilised by people.
I would argue that Islam is scientific if scientific is the means to measure, record and connect phenomena, which is what we do albeit in a fundamentally different domain of thought and within a different fabric of reality.

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http://ravi.lums.edu.pk/sabieh/science-islam.pdf

“Muslim response to twentieth century science”, (English), notes of speech delivered at [http://www.islamic-college.ac.uk/"]Islamic](http://URL)* College for Advanced Studies******,* London,** 19 May 2004