According to Islamic teachings...

According to Islamic teachings, every individual does normally have the complete capacity to find true answers to these questions. Indeed, according to Islam, it is his duty to find the right answers. This capacity is represented by the faculty of reason or intellect, which is innate in every human being. This faculty enables human beings to distinguish between true and false, just and unjust, right and wrong, straight and crooked, wholesome and unhealthy.

Of course, the intellect by itself does not have the means and equipment to discover the truth concerning all the significant questions. However, by following its own criteria it can arrive at reliable sources of knowledge whose mainspring lies beyond the reach of reason as such. This source of knowledge is revelation.

According to Islamic teachings, the Source of Being, which has brought into existence the human being and the world, has provided not only for his physical and natural needs during life on this planet, but also the necessary nourishment for his mind and spirit. In fact, as man’s intellectual and spiritual needs far exceed his physical requirements, the Source of Being has made appropriate and commensurate arrangements for the satisfaction of these needs as well.

These arrangements consist of the messengers, prophets and sages who have been inspired by God to guide human beings throughout the course of history.

And whenever the teachings, writings and scriptures brought by these prophets and sages have become corrupted and distorted in the course of time by priests, scribes, poets, and theologians, or entirely forsaken and abandoned by human communities, the Source of Being has dispatched further messengers and guides to restore guidance and the purity of divine teachings and to update them to bring them on a par with the needs of society. From an Islamic point of view, religion is the pursuit of truth.

In this sense, it is not intrinsically different from science which is the quest of the human mind to discover facts pertaining to the physical world. In fact, if we take the pursuit of truth in an absolute sense, science can be considered a part of religion, a component of the human quest for the truth. The respect for truth and the urge to discover is common to religion and science.

The distinction between religion and science lies in the kind of knowledge they seek and the methods they use for obtaining that knowledge.