Islam Creator of the Modern Age
Preface
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times, it has crossed the Atlantic to gain a foothold
in America.
In the Muslim world this revolution was brought
about through the influence of religion. The western
world, with its own particular circumstances, began
to develop this revolution along different lines,
separating secular science from religion. Gradually,
it was brought to its present culmination. The moon
journey mentioned here is an obvious illustration.
Just as nationalization is an economic part of the
philosophic system evolved by Marx, similarly
modern science is a part of Islamic revolution,
which has been separated from its whole.
The same is true of all the sciences, which are now
called natural sciences. The fields of these sciences
had become forbidden territory because of the
polytheistic view of the sanctity of all of nature’s
phenomena. It was the revolution of monotheism,
which opened the doors of research and
investigation by displacing nature from its sacred
pedestal.
