The Prophet’s Mercy towards the Elderly (P. 2/2)
These are just few examples of the Prophet's gentleness, mercy, and respect towards the elderly. These examples, and many others, translate the sublime Islamic code of ethics for treating the elderly and provide Muslims, generation after generation, with a practical model that they should follow.
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Prophet Muhammad was a pioneer in this field. He taught caring for the elderly irrespective of sex, color, or religion, and he himself set a great example in practicing the principles he taught.
Read More »Muslim Contribution to the Geometry
The greatest scientific contribution Muslims made to the world is the creation of mathematical science. Algebra, geometry, algorithm and arithmetic are at the heart of every scientific and social aspect of life. There is hardly a single device, business entity, industry, architecture built without the Arabic numerals, the decimal point, the sign and cosine, the ruler and the compass, all of which are Islamic inventions.
Read More »Prophet Muhammad’s Call to Muslims to Serve People
The religion of Islam is the religion of benevolence to the people. Therefore the honorable Prophet Muhammad was the best practical example for serving people and meeting their needs. His sayings are full of examples of exhorting Muslims to serve one another and help others.
Read More »Learning Institutions in Islam
It is already known that institutions such as al-Qayrawan, al-Qarawiyyin and al-Azhar, above all, were amongst the first universities throughout history. Another great body of institutions initiated by the Muslims were the Madrasas, or colleges, of which Ibn Jubayr counted thirty on his visit to Baghdad.
Read More »Muslims’ Contribution to Agriculture
Such advancement of Muslim farming, according to Bolens, was owed to the adaptation of agrarian techniques to local needs, and to `a spectacular cultural union of scientific knowledge from the past and the present, from the Near East, the Maghreb, and Andalusia.
Read More »Development of Science & Technology in Islamic History
Islam advocates the incorporation of knowledge within a just and balanced value system where anything beneficial for one’s spiritual and worldly improvement is encouraged and advocated.
Read More »The Story of the Qur’an
The Qur’an makes a clear distinction between the perceptible world of experience and the unseen world of transcendental reality. Revelation is a means for God’s specially chosen messengers to receive divine messages; we may call it an exclusive channel of communication accessible to the prophets.
Read More »The House of Wisdom in Baghdad
The Caliph Haroun Al-Rasheed built a magnificent Scientific Academy in which was housed a huge bookstore containing manuscripts and books about various subjects in the arts and the sciences and in different languages. This Scientific Academy was called the House of Wisdom (Bayt Al-Hikma and Dar Al-Hikma).
Read More »Muslims’ Contribution in Algebra
In the twelfth century Gerard of Cremona and Roberts of Chester translated the algebra of Al-Khowarizmi into Latin. Mathematicians used it all over the world until the sixteenth century.
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