THE FALSE CLAIM

THE FALSE CLAIM

We hear about the Golden Age of Islam when it led the West in science and technology through their eminent scientists. But it must be understood that men of seminal brilliance did what they did, not by following the tenets of Islam but despite Islam, by pursuing rational rigour utterly absent in Islam which is a faith founded on exclusive revelatory claims of its founder. The rationality and scientific acumen they exhibited, they got that from the Hindus and the Greeks and from their long civilisational culture of Mesopotamia and Persia utterly distinct from the Islamic culture which perforce perverted it. Islam played no role in this scientific advance. In fact the verses of the Qur'an also were numbered following the Hindu numeral system plagiarised by the Arab Muslims. Some enlightened and interested Muslim caliphs managed to think out of the Islamic scriptural box to allow these creative men space enough to exhibit their genius which they did. The moment Islam came in the way after a couple of centuries with more scrupulous practice of Islam enforced by later caliphs, this Golden Age progressively turned into the Dark Age which with its infertile curse revisited the Muslims, a curse running to this day as is evident in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Qatar, Kuwait, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Morocco, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the whole host of other Islamic countries. 

Written by Sugata Bose