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Overview
Shaykh Mahmud Shaltut opens Hadha Huwa al-Islam with Islam as the religion of reason and knowledge: the Qur'an urges reflection on the dominion of heavens and earth, places the people of knowledge third after God and the angels, and condemns blind imitation 1 2 3. Knowledge in the Qur'anic sense is not confined to the law — it is every faculty that helps man build the earth: farming, industry, health, wealth, defense of homelands 4; and the first revelation descended as a command to read.
Connections
- Related to
- Taqlid (blind imitation of inherited views)
People and things also explored
Taqlid (blind imitation of inherited views)· The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· The Prophetic Sunna· Command, prohibition and capacity· The Sunna as explanation of the Qur'an
Sources
- This Is Islam — a group of Azhar scholars , p. 11
- This Is Islam — a group of Azhar scholars , p. 12
- This Is Islam — a group of Azhar scholars , p. 13
- This Is Islam — a group of Azhar scholars , p. 20
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islam.museum contributors. “Reason and knowledge in Islam”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/concept/reason-and-knowledge-in-islam/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.