The Prophet Muhammad A simple Guide to his Life
Studying the Prophet’s Life in the Light of his Message
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be applied in order to prove their veracity. This fact
had led the scholars to believe that religious
realities were a matter of beliefs alone; they were
not scientific truths. But in present times, after the
smashing of the atom, a revolution has taken place
in the science of logic, and now it has been admitted
that inferential argument too is, in essence, as valid
as direct argument. Subsequently, it has become
possible to establish religious realities at the same
scientific level on which proofs (or disproofs) are
offered for material or non-religious theories.
In ancient times when man looked at the world, he
would see that apparently there was in existence a
great variety of objects so different from each other
as to seem at times to be almost the opposite of one
another. This observation produced the mentality of
shirk.
People thought that if things were diverse,
there should also be a diversity of creators. But
scientific studies have shown that this difference, or
diversity, is only on the surface. Otherwise all
things have originated from the same matter. This
discovery deprived the
shirk
of any scientific basis,
while scientific findings established an intellectual
basis for monotheism.
