The Prophet (S) encouraged Muslims to get to their highest when he said...

The Prophet (S) encouraged Muslims to get to their highest when he said: If the determination of the son of Adam turns toward what is beyond the Throne, he will get it. Thus, Islam does not see anything impossible in the field of knowledge, sciences and development. We avoid expatiation here as we may go far away from the theme of this book; otherwise, we could write an independent book on this subject. However, we ask scholars to refer to the scientific sources and books in this regard.

This is in answer to the title of this chapter where development is meant to concern the scientific and technological development in the fields of industries and inventions that have invaded the minds and houses of people from Europe, the United States of America and Japan especially. Anyhow, Muslims are indifferent to all that, and some of them have been affected by the civilization and the scientific inventions that have come from other than Muslims.

Therefore, they think that Islam is the cause of the underdevelopment, especially the ones who are influenced by communism that says: “ Religion is opium for the people ”. These people are ignorant, and if they are somehow fair, they will say that Islam is the incentive to people for their renewal and development.

Indeed, Islam created a nation from nothing in the Arabia which conveyed to the entire world a civilization and many sciences and inventions, until some scholars wrote: “ The sun of the Arabs shines over Europe ”, acknowledging that the Arabs after embracing and applying Islam, were precedent in every goodness, every discovery and invention.[^1] However, if by ‘development’ it is meant what the western world in Europe and America presents as the indecorous fashions of clothes, the absolute freedom given to the clubs of the naked, sodomy, the practice of sexual intercourse in public places, legislating of inheritance for dogs and other animals, and all what is shown in the TV of immoral programs…all these can never be recognized by Islam, nor does it comply with it.

Surely Islam fights against all these immoralities and tries to do away with them. On the other hand there are also some extreme practices by some Muslims who claim they are in keeping with the Prophet’s Sunna, These are from among the Salafists in particular.