Why does Islam contradicts Science?

SlaveofAllaah · May 27, 2007, 8:25pm

Re: Why does Islam contradicts Science?

At a certain point you need to use some common sense as well. Quran does ask us to do the impossible.

Firstly, guidance is never absolute. It wouldn’t be guidance if it were absolute. It would be an order or command. Such as praying is a command but not simply guidance.

Secondly, hadith is the second source of inference. This is where a little common sense would help. Could you fast and live to break an iftar if things were the way you said had we been in a place where the sun doesn’t rise for months. Its simply telling fasting is for the duration of dawn to dusk. Br. Psyah also mentioned a hadith where such a question arised and was simply given an answer based on simple common sense. Nothing to fuss about.

Thirdly, science and religion have different purposes. Most of clergy today are not about religion or understanding Allah SWT world but about power and control. I have never felt threatened by science. Can;t understand why I should be when it helps me live better. Its just the unmoralistic use of it that becomes subject to religious scrutiny and that is to preserve the moral fabric of a society.

The problem today is that those who are awarded the roles of clergy are not educated in anything else except religion and thus have a hard time coming to terms with those educated people who study religion and differ from them.

Quran is not a book of sciences or fortune telling in a broad sense. Its a guidance to salvation for humans. Actually I have been Khutbas where the Imam has gone to the extent of saying “Oh if you want to learn any science go to the Quran, you want to know about space, no need to goto NASA but read the Quran … blah blah blah”. This is where religiously misguided people take reverence to extremely ridiculous proportions.

Quran gave you the answer that no matter what you do or study inevitably you will lead to. It also told us that since we have a limited comprehension sooner or later you will run out of answers, so better not go down that path, just be quiet and believe that Allah SWT exists and controls all. Ofcourse everything has a systemic method of working and sciences study that and learn how to use or abuse it.

Seriously yaar, you have very pre-historic opinions.

I hope this is not corresponding with his nick name.