Abstract
Static view of religion is a cause of concern in all religious communities because it not only gnaws at their dynamism, more often it tends to swing history back to the old life patterns which have lost their validity and moral force. On the other hand history moves forward and seeks its direction intuitively. So, traditional view of religion collides with the forces of history in futile effort to cease the torrential stream of time. Resultantly, time or history crush them or throw them in the yokes of slavery of others who entertain ever fresh and dynamic view of history and religion. Same went with Islam. With an advent of modernity after European renaissance when Europe collided horns with Islam, once all the Muslim world submerged in European colonialism.it forced Muslim intelligentsia on serious soul search and brought forth three schools of thought the traditionalist who strictly cling to tradition even if it had relevance to the emerging realities of history or not; the revivalists who seek assuage in pristine Islam and turn the tide of history back while modernists sensing new realities harness materieux of history for moral cause and go hand in hand with history. Modernity is also a departure from mythos to the rationale so the most crucial question of todays’ scholarship is whether Islam and modernity are compatible or poles apart in context of history.
Highlights
Al-Duhaa, Jan-June 2021, Volume: 02, Issue: 01 an extent that with a greater vengeance he said that God is dead[1]; modernity has sealed the fate of religion
While modernity has swung humanity to the threshold of unprecedented power, peace and prosperity, the supreme objects of man’s desire and religious scriptures too instruct him how to manage and wield these precious blessings, why religion and modernity instead of mutual harmony have become hornet’s nest to each other.Mutual harmony is the ultimate destiny of religion and modernity; for who says “ my religion is inconsistent with science has passed judgment on the falsity of his religion.when “human intellect has about outgrown its fundamental categories of time, space and causality3”; cognitive revolutions suggest new ways of looking at the problem common to both religion and science
Man is bestowed with faculty of creative knowledge (2:30 -35) and religion and science had to walk hand in hand but religious academic orthodoxy failed to touch the pace of modernity and as a corollary both parted ways
Summary
Al-Duhaa, Jan-June 2021, Volume: 02, Issue: 01 an extent that with a greater vengeance he said that God is dead[1]; modernity has sealed the fate of religion.
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