Then He Said to it...
Then He Said to it: “From you I shall Create the tyrants, and the Pharaohs, and the ruthless ones, and the brethren of the satans, and imams of Kufr, and the inviters to the Fire and their followers up to the Day of Judgment, and I do not Mind, nor will I be questioned about what I Do, and they would be Questioned”.
And He azwj Stipulated in that the Change of Mind regarding them, and He azwj did not Stipulate regarding the companions of the right hand, the Change of Mind of Allah azwj regarding them. Then He azwj Mixed the two waters in His azwj Palm altogether, and He azwj Shook these two, then He azwj Placed these two in front of His azwj Throne, and they were both sodden with clay’’. (Tafseer e Ayashi, vol. 1, p.
14449 [19] Nahj Al Balagah – Saying 79, [20] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 1, The book of intellect, and the knowledge, and the ignorance, S 1 Ch 4 H 32 [21] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 1, The book of intellect, and the knowledge, and the ignorance, S 2 Ch 1 H 108 [22] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 1, The book of intellect, and the knowledge, and the ignorance, S 2 Ch 1 H 20 [23] Uneducated religious clerics [24] During most of the 16th and 17th centuries, fear of heretics spreading teachings and opinions that contradicted the Bible dominated the Catholic Church.
They persecuted scientists who formed theories the Church deemed heretical and forbade people from reading any books on those subjects by placing the books on the Index of Prohibited Books. A type of war between science and religion was in play but there would be more casualties on the side of science. Nicholas Copernicus and Galileo Galilei were two scientists who printed books that later became banned.
Copernicus faced no persecution when he was alive because he died shortly after publishing his book. Galileo, on the other hand, was tried by the Inquisition after his book was published. Both scientists held the same theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun, a theory now known to be true. However, the Church disapproved of this theory because the Holy Scriptures state that the Earth is at the centre, not the Sun.