Why scientists don’t embrace Islam?
There is a significant relation to the crisis that mankind is in. Scientists are biased when looking at the Quran. Human nature is not determined by reason but also by emotion. Satan has spread pride, envy and hatred. These mistakes lead to a communication gap, a total failure of spiritual progress. So both emotion and reason need to be addressed by Muslims.
Despite of the significant scientific proof of the existence of Allah given in the Quran many scientists do not become Muslims. An important reason for the lack of understanding of Islam by the majority of secular intellectuals is the absence of publicity. There is a total suppression of an effective communication by the hypocritical so-called Muslim governments and the secular media. The Muslim countries are busy copying the secular system in order to achieve worldly progress and do not realise that they are in fact diminishing both the successes in this life and the hereafter. They should rather reunite worldly and spiritual education and try to implement it themselves, independently from the overproducing, overconsuming and overpolluting industrial nations:
- For each (such person) there are (angels) in succession before and behind him: they guard him by command of Allah. Verily never will Allah change the condition of a people until they change it themselves (with their own souls). But when (once) Allah willeth a people’s punishment there can be no turning it back nor will they find besides Him any to protect.
A. Yusuf Ali Quran Translation
Surah Ar-Ra’d Surah 13 43 Ayahs
Following secular ideas in worldly matters because of the materialistic success of the industry nations will not necessarily improve the situation of a Muslim society, which has a revelation in its hands. The Quran has the answer to every single worldly and spiritual matter and is given by the very Creator himself:
54 We have explained in detail in this Qur’an for the benefit of mankind every kind of similitude: but man is in most things contentious.
55 And what is there to keep back men from believing now that Guidance has come to them nor from praying for forgiveness from their Lord but that (they ask that) the ways of the ancients be repeated with them or the Wrath be brought to them face to face?
56 We only send the Apostles to give glad tidings and to give warnings: but the Unbelievers dispute with vain argument in order therewith to weaken the truth and they treat My Signs as a jest as also the fact that they are warned!
57 And who doth more wrong than one who is reminded of the Signs of his Lord but turns away from them forgetting the (deeds) which his hands have sent forth? Verily We have set veils over their hearts lest they should understand this and over their ears deafness. If thou callest them to guidance even then will they never accept guidance.
58 But your Lord is Most Forgiving Full of Mercy. If He were to call them (at once) to account for what they have earned then surely He would have hastened their Punishment: but they have their appointed time beyond which they will find no refuge.
59. Such were the populations We destroyed when they committed iniquities; but We fixed an appointed time for their destruction
A. Yusuf Ali Quran Translation
Surah Al-Kahf Surah 18 110 Ayahs
The mistakes of the so-called Muslims will be dealt with later. The scientists and engineers however are getting more and more into a situation in which they are no longer in control of what will be done with their discoveries and inventions. In fact, many are in a moral dead-end and deny any responsibility for the destructive work that can follow their initial discoveries or inventions. This is particularly true in the genetical field where cloning has become a sort of entertainment and competition. The current debate on genetically manufactured food shows the sceptical attitude of the masses. But in fact Allah creates the atoms and molecules in the cells of living beings and the scientists are not creating life but just making copies or just very small changes:
- O men! Here is a parable set forth! Listen to it! Those on whom besides Allah ye call cannot create (even) a fly if they all met together for the purpose! And if the fly should snatch away anything from them they would have no power to release it from the fly: feeble are those who petition and those whom they petition
A. Yusuf Ali Quran Translation
Surah Al-Hajj Surah 22 78 Ayahs
And even if physicists put together new Atoms by nuclear fusion, acceleration and division in reactors and particle accelerators, they are still using the quarks, protons and neutrinos provided by Allah, the creator of it all.
But reproducing life is a challenge still to be met, just like reproducing a Surah. Still they are trying and they will keep doing that as well as they torture animals until the Day of Judgement. But there is some benefit in genetical engineering, if the manipulation is kept within limits. For example genetically manipulated bacteria produce human insulin for the healing of the symptoms of diabetes which is inherited:
Allah’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said: There is a remedy for every malady, and when the remedy is applied to the disease it is cured with the permission of Allah, the Exalted and Glorious.
Sahih Muslim Hadith
Hadith 5466 Narrated by
Jabir ibn Abdullah
So seeking for remedies even in genetical manipulation within limits is all right. But nowadays scientists are exceeding limits by competing in who can clone most species without any medical or biological sense! They need guidance.
Scientists have not always been unscrupulous with life. Scientists of the generation before the Second World War had some moral basis like the following two examples will show.
Oppenheimer, being an Ashkenazi (Eastern European/German people converted to Judaism in the 10th century mainly due to political reasons) and physicist was working on the atom bomb in order for it to be used against Hitler’s war machine which was persecuting European Jews (and Gypsies, Blacks, Communists, Socialists etc.). His weapon was used against Japan after the Second World War had ended. He was very disappointed by that.
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