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philosophy and
hatred for Islam.
A grievous crime indeed against religion has been committed by the man who imagines
that Islam is
defended by the denial of the mathematical sciences, seeing that there is nothing in revealed truth
opposed
to these sciences by way of either negation or affirmation, and nothing in these sciences opposed
to the
truths of religion. Muhammad, peace be upon him said, `The sun and the moon are two of the signs of
Allah;
they are not eclipsed for anyone‟s death nor for his life; if you see such an event, take refuge in
thikr Allah
(most high) and in prayer‟. There is nothing here obliging us to deny the science of arithmetic
which informs
us specifically of the orbits of sun and moon, and their conjunction and opposition. (The further
saying of
Muhammad, peace be upon him, `When Allah manifests Himself to a thing, it submits to Him‟, is an
addition
hatred for Islam.
A grievous crime indeed against religion has been committed by the man who imagines
that Islam is
defended by the denial of the mathematical sciences, seeing that there is nothing in revealed truth
opposed
to these sciences by way of either negation or affirmation, and nothing in these sciences opposed
to the
truths of religion. Muhammad, peace be upon him said, `The sun and the moon are two of the signs of
Allah;
they are not eclipsed for anyone‟s death nor for his life; if you see such an event, take refuge in
thikr Allah
(most high) and in prayer‟. There is nothing here obliging us to deny the science of arithmetic
which informs
us specifically of the orbits of sun and moon, and their conjunction and opposition. (The further
saying of
Muhammad, peace be upon him, `When Allah manifests Himself to a thing, it submits to Him‟, is an
addition