Islam Between East and West
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Everything must serve man and man must serve God only. This is the ultimate meaning of humanism.
Every manipulation of people, even if it is done in their own interest, is inhuman. To think for them and to free them from their responsibilities and obligations is also inhuman. Our quality of man obliges us. When God gave man the ability to choose and threatened him with severe punishments he confirmed in the highest way the value of man as a man. We have to follow the example set by God. Let us leave men to struggle for himself instead of doing it for him.
Man's dignity could not be dicovered by biology, psychology, or by any other science, Man's dignity is a spiritual question. After "objective observations," it is easier for science to confirm the inequality of man , and so, "scientific racism" is quite possible and even logical.
Animal and human psychology may complement each other, for psychology has nothing to do with the soul, only with the psychological manifestations.
In primitive man's songs and drama, it is not possible to distinguish between art and cult. The first stone sculpture was an idol. Religious inspiration, wrongly oriented, created those fantastic sculptures of gods and masks found in Oceania, Mexico, and on the Ivory Coast and which today are good examples of impressionistic art . All so-called plastic art is idolatrous in origin, and this is how Islam's intolerance - and that of some less personalistic religions - of this form of art should be explained. It seems that we have to go back to prehistory to understand the roots of art in religion, and how they, together with primitive ethics, have a common source: man's longing for a lost world.
After studying the paintings of Neanderthal man in France, Henri Simle concluded that the psychological life of primitive man differed very little from that of modern man. "Even the cave man of 70,000 years ago suffered from 'the metaphysical giddiness,' the illness of modern man. Obviously, this is not the continuation of biological evolution, but one more act of the drama which was started by the "prologue in heaven."
Man does not be have as a child of nature but rather as a stranger in it. His basic feeling is fear but not the biological fear that animals feel. It is a spiritual, cosmic, and primeval fear bound to the secrets and riddles of human existence. Markin Heidegger called it the "eternal and timeless determinant of human existence." This is a fear mingled with curiosity, astonishment, admiration, disaffection - the feelings that perhaps lie at the basis of all our culture and art .
All art is a continuous story of man's foreignness in nature .
Man is not tailored according to Darwin, nor is the universe tailored according to Newton.
Islam is ideologically independent - non aligned. Islam is such by its very definition.
Life does not depend too much on our understanding of it.
All man's failures are either because of the religious denial of man's biological needs or the materialistic denial of man's spiritual desires.
Islam is not only a religion or a way of life but primarily the principle of the organization of the universe. Islam existed before man and it is as the Quran explicitly states a principle by which man was created. Hence one finds an inherent harmony between the man and Islam or as the book calls it the "manlikeness" of Islam. In the same way as man is a unity of spirit and body, Islam is a unity of religion and social order and just as a body in prayer can follow the movement of the soul, the social order can serve the ideals of religion and ethics. This unity foreign both to Christianity and materialism is basic and the most Islamic characteristic of Islam.