Comments on: Islam 101 - science and faith http://irshaad.net/2007/05/10/islam-101-science-and-faith/ The ascending stairways Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:12:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: hamdard http://irshaad.net/2007/05/10/islam-101-science-and-faith/#comment-242 hamdard Thu, 10 May 2007 14:39:59 +0000 http://irshaad.net/2007/05/10/islam-101-science-and-faith/#comment-242 Sry if i misunderstand, but the author seems to refer to modern science in the context of the quote right? Contrastingly, traditional science or ilm is sacred science and in this sense is the highest state of human knowledge which is the subservience of the outer "revolution" for the sake of the inner. Sry if i misunderstand, but the author seems to refer to modern science in the context of the quote right? Contrastingly, traditional science or ilm is sacred science and in this sense is the highest state of human knowledge which is the subservience of the outer “revolution” for the sake of the inner.

]]> By: Irshaad http://irshaad.net/2007/05/10/islam-101-science-and-faith/#comment-245 Irshaad Thu, 10 May 2007 19:13:02 +0000 http://irshaad.net/2007/05/10/islam-101-science-and-faith/#comment-245 I've expanded the section quoted from Mutahhari's book to correct any impression that he gives complete primacy to science. Religion connects us vertically to higher realities, while science provides a horizontal, instrumental understanding and connection with this present world. Mutahhari speaks both of a science that takes its tenor and direction from unified metaphysical principles (the science that should be) and one that has cut its ties with all metaphysics (the lamp in the hands of a thief). He also has much to say of a religiosity which has devolved away from religion as a sacred science into an absolutism or fanaticism that is a parody of real religion, disconnected from any real comprehension of the metaphysical realities it supposedly follows and adheres to. I’ve expanded the section quoted from Mutahhari’s book to correct any impression that he gives complete primacy to science. Religion connects us vertically to higher realities, while science provides a horizontal, instrumental understanding and connection with this present world. Mutahhari speaks both of a science that takes its tenor and direction from unified metaphysical principles (the science that should be) and one that has cut its ties with all metaphysics (the lamp in the hands of a thief).

He also has much to say of a religiosity which has devolved away from religion as a sacred science into an absolutism or fanaticism that is a parody of real religion, disconnected from any real comprehension of the metaphysical realities it supposedly follows and adheres to.

]]> By: hamdard http://irshaad.net/2007/05/10/islam-101-science-and-faith/#comment-251 hamdard Thu, 10 May 2007 23:05:40 +0000 http://irshaad.net/2007/05/10/islam-101-science-and-faith/#comment-251 I don't want to hijack this comment thread but some of Mutahhari's books are here: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Mutahhari%2C%20Murtaza Good for those of us that don't speak farsi. I don’t want to hijack this comment thread but some of Mutahhari’s books are here:
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Mutahhari%2C%20Murtaza

Good for those of us that don’t speak farsi.

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