Religion in the face of science, by Dr Youssouf Al-Qaradâwî

What can religion still bring in a time when science seems to hold all the answers? Since Western civilization and technology triumphed when the West shed the grip of the Christian religion, should Muslim societies in turn “enter modernity” by turning away from Islam?

In our time, religion is often presented as being in conflict with science. The triumph of science, in the materialistic sense of the term, is seen as the pinnacle of human progress.

Dr. Yoûssouf al-Qaradâwî here refutes a certain number of ready-made ideas. It shows that in Islam, religion and science go hand in hand. Indeed, he recalls, that Islam calls for the search for knowledge; a knowledge that clarifies and deepens the faith and that the experimental method which made the glory of Western science actually finds its origin in the research of Muslim scholars of the past.