Usrah

Semasa tamrin haritu kerap kali timbul persoalan ini. Dan aku pun pernah tulis pandangan Fethullah Gulen berkenaannya. Baru-baru ni juga aku kutip pandangan “orang luar”, iaitu Karen Armstrong. Aku malas nak fikir sendiri jawapan yang original kepada persoalan ini, jadi memadai copy-paste petikan dari Syed Muhammad Naguib al-Attas pula untuk tatapan pengunjung. Persoalan sebegini memang lazim dikupas oleh beliau, kerana ia menjadi asas kepada inisiatif Islamization of Knowledge.

Begini kata Syed Naguib:

“We do affirm that religion is in harmony with science. But this does not mean that religion is in harmony with modern scientific methodology and philosophy of science. Since there is no science that is free of value, we must intelligently investigate and study the values and judgments that are inherent in, or aligned to, the presuppositions and interpretations of modern science. We must not indifferently and uncritically accept each new scientific or philosophical theory without first understanding its implication and testing the validity of values that go along with the theory. Islam possesses within itself the source of its claim to truth, and does not need scientific or philosophical theories to justify such a claim. Moreover, it is not the concern of Islam to fear scientific discoveries that could contradict the validity of its truth.”

[Prolegomena to the Metaphysics of Islam, p. 38]