Islam Creator of the Modern Age
2. Holding Sacred that which is not Sacred
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high pedestal to being just another part of God’s
Creation. Now, instead of the phenomena of nature
being held as objects of worship, they came to be
held as objects of subjugation and conquest.
This concept of monotheism had been propounded
by all the prophets in the past. However, it
remained at the level of pronouncement on an
individual level; it could not reach the stage of
general revolution. The movement based on
monotheism finally reached the stage of revolution
only through the struggle of the Prophet and his
companions. After this, the tendency to regard
nature as holy decreased to the point where it no
longer existed as such; this was a necessary
outcome of such a revolution. Now man started
looking at nature with a view to exploring and
exploiting it. This process developed in a positive
way over the centuries, sometimes slowing,
sometimes accelerating, but finally ushering in our
modern scientific age.
The
Encyclopaedia Britannica
states in its article,
‘History of Physical Sciences,’ that Greek science fell
into jeopardy after the second century A.D., because
