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You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got. And at one point you'd hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your brokenhearted spouse there in the pew and tell him that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you. And as your widow rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever. And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves with their programs as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives. And you'll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith; indeed, they should not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time. You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they'll be comforted to know your energy's still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you're just less orderly. Amen. ↗
It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy. ↗
It is for Muslim scholars to study the whole history of Islamic science completely and not only the chapters and periods which influenced Western science. It is also for Muslim scholars to present the tradition of Islamic science from the point of view of Islam itself and not from the point of view of the scientism, rationalism and positivism which have dominated the history of science in the West since the establishment of the discipline in the early part of the 20th century in Europe and America. ↗
Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences. ↗
من أفضل ما يلخص الفرق بين الدين والفلسفة عند قدماء اليونان مقولة للفارابي (إن اسم الفلسفة خاص عندهم بالعلم الذي تتعقل فيه حقائق الأشياء بذاتها، لا بمثلها، ويتوسل فيه إلى اثباتها بالبراهين اليقينية لا بمجرد الإقناع. أما الملل والأديان فطريقها في التفهيم إقناعي، وتمثيلي) . ورد هذا المعنى عند الفارابي بلغته الخاصة، وهو يرى أن كل تعليم يلتئم بشيئين: التفهيم بالشيء وإقامة معناه في النفس، وإقاع التصديق بما فهم. (وتفهيم الشيء على ضربين : أحدهما أن تعقل ذاته، والثاني بأن يتخيل بمثاله الذي يحاكيه. وإيقاع التصديق يكون بأحد الطريقين: إما بطريق البرهان اليقيني، وإما بطريق الإقناع. ومتى حصل علم الموجودات أو تعلّمت، فإن عُقِلت معانيها أنفسها وأوقعَ التصديق بها عن البراهين اليقينية، كان العلم المشتمل على تلك المعلومات فلسفة، ومتى علمت بأن تخيلت بمثالاتها التي تحاكيها، وحصل التصديقي بما خيل منها عن طريق الطرق الإقناعية، كان المشتمل على تلك المعلومات تسمية القدماء ملة). هذا يعني أن الفرق الأساسي بين الدين والفلسفة بحسب الفارابي، هو في الأدوات المعرفية وليس في موضوعات المعرفة. والواضح أنه يميز بين البرهان اليقيني والإقناع، ويقصد به التصديق بغير برهان. كما أن الفارابي يعتبر الدين معرفة، لكنها معرفة معتمدة في فهم المعنى على الرمز والإستعارة، وتصديقهما (بالإقناع من دون برهان يقيني، وهو الإيمان عند الفارابي). ↗
