Islam Adresses Contemporary İssues
| ISBN | 9789757388500 |
| Yayınevi | Kaynak Kültür Yayın Grubu |
| Yazarlar | Ali Ünal (author) |
| Kitap Tanıtımı | Islam is the name of the religion which God revealed to mankind through all of the Prophets, who came with the same essentials of belief, called people to worship only One God and preached and promoted the moral values and condemned vices. The differences lie in particular rules and injunctions connected with economic and political relationships at particular epochs. The Divine Scripture, the universe, and man are three kinds of the manifestation of one truth. Therefore, there cannot be in principle a contradiction or incompatibility between the truths of the Qur´an (which issued from the Divine Attribute of Speech) and the truths universe (which issued from the Divine Attributes of Power and Will). Within an Islamic civilization, true to its authentic, original impulse, there cannot be a contradiction between science, the objective study of the ´natural´ world, and religion, the effort in personal and collective life to seek the pleasure of God. True belief is not something based on blind imitation; it should appeal to the reason as well as the heart, and combine affirmation by the reason and the inward experience and submission of the heart. Nothing stands so effectively against the cynicism with which power is handled in the West than religious belief where such belief is serious and sincere. Therefore it is not surprise that, from time to time, political opinion-formers in the West will take swipes at religion, particularly at Islam, claiming quite absurdly that religion is responsible for inspiring killing, ignoring the real cause behind the colonialism of previous centuries and hundreds of thousands of casualties in World Wars and during and after communist revolutions. Although intended to defend religion against science, Cartesian dualism gives science superiority over religion and primacy in practical life and thought, restricting religion and primacy in practical life and thought, restricting religion to a set of blindly held beliefs, not subject to reseach, verification and reasoning and practically irrelevant to the world and ´worldly life´. Humanity lies in man´s struggling against the negative aspects of his nature and restricting them or channelling them into virtues, and in his acquiring distinction with his good qualities, thus becoming a good, worshipping servant of God and useful member of society. What makes history is not a compelling will, rather it is man´s own choice. The stream of events are the occasions which God causes to follow one another to the end that the good may be distinguished from the evil. History is the name of this stream of events. (Arka Kapak) |
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