If there had been a conflict between religion and science in...

If there had been a conflict between religion and science in some eras of history, as it happened with the history of Christianity, that conflict had no connection with religion.

Rather it had been a sort of deviation from religion, and religion is not responsible for the deviations people commit by its name” [^82] It is sorrowful that some voices rise here and there calling to separate religion from knowledge on the pretext that Europe had shun religion then it developed and we adhered to religion we failed.

The minds of those people are either incapable of realizing the function of science which is a tool to uncover the objective truths and to give a neutral, precise and deep interpretation of the reality, or that those minds are ignorant of the Islamic procedure which doesn’t cease to inspire people to get knowledge.

Most probably that they are mercenaried minds echoing the allegations of the grudged enemies of Islam and they overlook the serious spiritual results which stemmed from separating science from religion: “The clearest example of that is the age in which we live, the age in which the scientific and material development has reached its summit, and in which humanity had reached its lowest point in brutal fighting and enmity which severs the relations of humanity and makes it live in a lasting horror and fear of destruction, as it also has reached the lowest level in their depiction of the aims of life and the raise d’être of humanity restricting them to lust and enjoyments, reaching its lowest level -as a result of that thinking- of moral corruption and sexual disorder from which the animal abstains.”[^83] So the procedures of education bear a big obligation to the Islamic ideology for its insistence on the role of faith and knowledge in building Man’s personality.

By separating knowledge from faith Man becomes like a magnetic needle swinging between the north and the south; therefore he needs a power which can stimulate a revolution in his conscience and give him a moral course that can actualize his humanity, this is a task which science can not perform without religion. [^1] Al-Nissa’a 4:28, Al-Ma’arech 70:19 Al-Ahzaab 33:72, Al-Anbei’a 21:37, Al-Alaq 96: 6. [^2] Al-Baqarah 2: 286. [^3] Al-Khisal by Al-Sadook, p. 417, chapter of number nine.

[^4] Kanzel Ummal by Al-Muttaki Al-Hindi, vol. 4, p. 233. [^5] Manlaa Yahzurul Fakeeh 4: 31 the chapter of punishments Daar Saaub pub.