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Muslims and the Modern Science

We are living in the age of science and technology. We can see many wonderful inventions of science around us. Inventions like computers,cars,tv, airplanes etc are the most wonderful inventions of science. These inventions change the the way of our thinking and living. For the last five centuries all the development and progress in science is done by west. If you make the list of great scientists except Dr Abdus Salam you will find nowhere any Muslim scientist. Although the basis of physics,maths and chemistry was provided by the Muslim scientist. Why is that we weren’t able to continue that?

We are Muslims and in Quran we are directed ‘to learn’ but we are not serious about that. We are serious about other things like what is allowed and what is not allowed in Islam. What is right for us to do and what is wrong. We don’t emphasize the first word of Quran ‘to learn’. We don’t emphasize that in Sura-e -Rehman, Allah orders us to recognize him from his creations. All these main things are done by people who are not Muslims and we Muslims are stuck between Halal and Haram. There are many scientific theories and researches which were made by scientist and were in Quran,like in QuRAN about iron Allah says that it is very powerful and it was sent by Me on earth later approximately after thousand years scientist were able to discover that in iron molecules are most tightly bounded and binding energy per nucleons of iron is more than any other element describes the power of iron and iron it did not naturally exists in earth it comes from stars . Another example is Allah says in Quran that I make things in pairs. This is discover later by science that every thing in universe doesn’t exit alone everything has its anti body. There are so many example but the bottom line is that this should discover by Muslims not any other nation because it was in Quran.This means that we don’t consider the things which is written is Quran infact we consider other things as very important like what is Halal and Haram.we have made different Islams of our own. We always look forward for the life after death and don’t consider this life. Yes, I agree this life has no importance as compare to life after death but I don’t agree the fact that we spent this life in praying and praising Allah doesn’t make any contribution in this world. We should contribute in order to lift our religion and our past glory.

I think we Muslims should think about future and must learn from our past mistakes. Although we are hundred years behind from west in science and technology but we can still do wonders and can create our impact on the world. In order to do that we must educate ourselves in science and technology. We must play our part in order to make this world a better place for all the nations. We must not forget the teachings of Holy Quran and Sunnah. InsAllah one day we Muslims will again conquer the world.