A scholar’s ink is holier than a martyr’s blood, said Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), or he said something that came close. We live in times when science and technology dominate almost all aspects of life. However, the roots of the modern understanding of many sciences including optics, medicine, astronomy and mathematics can be […]
Enlightenment
Enlightenment and Islam
In the early part of this month, during my sojourn to the Holy Land, the question which perplexed me most was whether there was a real connection between enlightenment and faith, and whether in their genesis these two are all-embracing or mutually exclusive. My deep reflections on various texts of the Holy Quran, and some […]