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دانشگاه باقر العلوم، استاد پي‌سپار

The second text 1378/8 /7- tuesday, October 28, 2008

 

 

 

Islam and modern technology

One of the characteristics of modern thought is the reductionism which has itself affected Islam in its confrontation with modernism. One of effect of modernism upon Islam has been to reduce Islam in the minds of many to only one of its dimensions, namely the shari’ya, and to divest it of those intellectual weapons which alone withstand the assault of modern thought upon the citadel of Islam. The shari’ah is of course basic to the Islamic tradition; it is the ground upon which the religion is based. But the intellectual challenges posed by modernism in the form of evolutionism, rationalism, existentialism, agnosticism and the like can only be answered intellectually and not juridically nor by ignoring or disregarding them and expecting some kind of magical wedding between the Shari’ah and modern science and technology. The successful encounter of Islam with modern thought can only come about when modern thought is fully understood in both its roots and ramifications and the whole of the Islamic tradition brought to bear upon the solution of the enormous problems which modernism poses for Islam. At the center of this undertaking lies the revival of the wisdom, the hikmah or Haqiqah, which lies at the heart of the Islamic revelation and which will remain valid as long as men remain men and bear witness to him according to their theomorphic nature and their state of servitude before the Lord (ubudiyyah), the state which is the raison d’etre of human existence. 

 

Characteristicsمشخصات،خصوصيات

Reductionismكاهش گري

Confrontationمواجهه، مقابله

Divestبي بهره كردن، محروم كردن

Assaultيورش،حمله، هجوم

Citadelارگ، دژ، سنگر

Evolutionismتكامل گرايي

Rationalismعقل گرايي

          Existentialismهستي گرايي

Agnosticismآيين لا ادري

Juridically ازلحاظ قضايي – حقوقي

Encounterرويارويي،‌مواجهه

Ramifications انشعاب

Revival احيا، تجديد، بهبود، رونق

Revelationافشا، وحي، الهام

Theomorphicمانند خدا

Servitudeبندگي، بردگي