Islam Creator of the Modern Age
1. Islam: Creator of the Modern Age
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the science of chemistry, subjected them for the first
time to scientific examination. The entire earth for
that matter was considered to be a deity. (It was
even thought that the sky was a male deity and the
earth a female deity) The Muslims again were the
first to measure it to find out its diameter and
circumference. The sea, too, was an object of
worship, but the Muslims became the greatest
pioneers in using it as a vast highway. Storms and
the wind were held to be mysterious forces and, as
such, were objects of awe and reverence. The
Muslims set them to turning their windmills.
Mysterious stories were associated with trees and
thus the trees too had become worthy of veneration.
The Muslims started investigating them, and
succeeded in enriching Dioscorides’ Herbal by 2000
species.
The rivers, too, were held to be sacred and therefore
alive. Boys and girls were, therefore, sacrificed to
these deities in order to please them. Muslims,
however, used the same rivers for irrigation by
making canals, thus ushering in a new age of
agriculture.
