IMPORTANT

While explaining the command, “Introduce Me to My slaves through hikmat and through beautiful preachings!” which is in the hundred and twenty-fifth âyat of Nahl Sûra, Qâdî Baydâwî says: “It means, ‘Communicate to the intelligent and to the educated through scientific knowledge and to the ignorant people, who follow their emotions, by describing what is seen.’ ”

At one time, upon reading about the things that were declared as they appeared in their books, Jews and Christians thought that the facts were so that the earth was smooth and motionless and that the sun was turning around it, that the sky was put over the earth like a tent, that Allâhu ta’âlâ sat on a throne, like a man, and managed all matters. Because scientific knowledge, which is discovered through experiments, disagreed with these beliefs of theirs, they said that scientists were irreligious. Upon this unjust judgment, scientists attacked Judaism and Christianity. For example, William Draper, who is famous for his enmity against religions, says in his book Conflict Between Knowledge and Religion: “There is no human being who is apart from the universe, dominating the universe, and can do what he wishes.” This word of his shows that he thinks of Allâhu ta’âlâ as a human being and therefore denies Him. At another place, by stating: “There is a power in the universe which dominates everything, yet this is not the god whom the priests believe,” he indicates that he thinks that Allâhu ta’âlâ should be the greatest of the powers of physics and chemistry.