Religion and Theology

Muqtedar Khan, in The Importance of Social Sciences, discusses the future of the Islamic religion.  He says danger lurks in the perception of general knowledge that the Muslims have assumed to be the Islam knowledge.  There is need for the Muslims to change their perception on the study of social sciences and have the desire to gather more knowledge.

Civilization among the Islam is sluggish.  It is attributed to the loss of creativity and the laggardness in dynamic environment to the visionless Muslim understanding of the power of knowledge. Islam has limited knowledge to the Muslim jurisprudence and law understanding. Islam is said to have neglected social sciences and narrowed scholarly work to the memorization of the Quran thus their intellectuality has declined greatly (Khan, 2006).  Social sciences of different religious groups other than the Islam are found to progress due to their focus on the study of current world situations and their cause for existence unlike the postulation of what should be happening.

American Muslims are a step ahead since their revival in 1980 to study social sciences. The development of china, India and Japan is attributed to the studies carried out by the social sciences in their countries.  The Ulema doctrine has made the Muslim stagnate in olden days traditions instead of the current events (Khan, 2006).

It is suggested that Islamic curriculum be revised in order to empower the young generation of scholars with wider knowledge and development in social sciences.  Fortunately, some of the Muslim scholars now appreciate that Islam has failed in their faith and have surrendered their vision to support humanity and therefore need to research more and accomplish the duty Allah has left to them.