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“My own observations had by now convinced me that the mind of the average Westerner held an utterly distorted image of Islam. What I saw in the pages of the Koran was not a ‘crudely materialistic’ world-view but, on the contrary, an intense God-consciousness that expressed itself in a rational acceptance of all God-created nature: a harmonious side-by-side of intellect and sensual urge, spiritual need and social demand. It was obvious to me that the decline of the Muslims was not due to any shortcomings in Islam but rather to their own failure to live up to it. For, indeed, it was Islam that had carried the early Muslims to tremendous cultural heights by directing all their energies toward conscious thought as the only means to understanding the nature of God’s creation and, thus, of His will. No demand had been made of them to believe in dogmas difficult or even impossible of intellectual comprehension; in fact, no dogma whatsoever was to be found in the Prophet’s message: and, thus, the thirst after knowledge which distinguished early Muslim history had not been forced, as elsewhere in the world, to assert itself in a painful struggle against the traditional faith. On the contrary, it had stemmed exclusively from that faith. The Arabian Prophet had declared that ‘Striving after knowledge is a most sacred duty for every Muslim man and woman’: and his followers were led to understand that only by acquiring knowledge could they fully worship the Lord. When they pondered the Prophet’s saying, ‘God creates no disease without creating a cure for it as well’, they realised that by searching for unknown cures they would contribute to a fulfilment of God’s will on earth: and so medical research became invested with the holiness of a religious duty. They read the Koran verse, ‘We create every living thing out of water’ - and in their endeavour to penetrate to the meaning of these words, they began to study living organisms and the laws of their development: and thus they established the science of biology. The Koran pointed to the harmony of the stars and their movements as witnesses of their Creator’s glory: and thereupon the sciences of astronomy and mathematics were taken up by the Muslims with a fervour which in other religions was reserved for prayer alone. The Copernican system, which established the earth’s rotation around its axis and the revolution of the planet’s around the sun, was evolved in Europe at the beginning of the sixteenth century (only to be met by the fury of the ecclesiastics, who read in it a contradiction of the literal teachings of the Bible): but the foundations of this system had actually been laid six hundred years earlier, in Muslim countries - for already in the ninth and tenth centuries Muslim astronomers had reached the conclusion that the earth was globular and that it rotated around its axis, and had made accurate calculations of latitudes and longitudes; and many of them maintained - without ever being accused of hearsay - that the earth rotated around the sun. And in the same way they took to chemistry and physics and physiology, and to all the other sciences in which the Muslim genius was to find its most lasting monument. In building that monument they did no more than follow the admonition of their Prophet that ‘If anybody proceeds on his way in search of knowledge, God will make easy for him the way to Paradise’; that ‘The scientist walks in the path of God’; that ‘The superiority of the learned man over the mere pious is like the superiority of the moon when it is full over all other stars’; and that ‘The ink of the scholars is more precious that the blood of martyrs’. Throughout the whole creative period of Muslim history - that is to say, during the first five centuries after the Prophet’s time - science and learning had no greater champion than Muslim civilisation and no home more secure than the lands in which Islam was supreme.”

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Book:The Road To Mecca
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“Hepimiz gecede bir kez, ayda bir kez, yılda bir kez maskelerimizi değiştirsek ne olur?" dedi. "Mesleğinin, sınıfının, yurttaşlığının, görüşlerinin maskelerini. Karı kocanın, anne baba ve çocuğun, efendi ve kölenin maskelerini. Hatta bedenin maskelerini -erkek ve dişi, çirkin ve güzel, yaşlı ve genç. Çoğu erkek hiç karşı çıkmadan maskelerini takıyor ve ömür boyu çıkarmıyor.”

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Book:Rüyalarının Esiri
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“323. ČUVAJ SE ŠEJTANA Čuvaj se šejtana u vjerovanju svome, da ga ne pokvari raznim doktrinama, i čuvaj ga se u ibadetu svome, da ga ne pokvari licemjerstvom, i čuvaj ga se u djelu svome, da ga ne pokvari strastima, i čuvaj ga se u znanju svome, da ga ne pokvari izmišljotinama, i čuvaj ga se u svojoj pokornosti Allahu, dž.š., da je ne pokvari ohološću, i čuvaj ga se u ahlaku svome, da ga ne pokvari uobraženošću, i čuvaj ga se u ispravnosti svojoj, da je ne pokvari raznim pohlepama i žudnjama.”

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Book:هكذا علمتني الحياة
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