THREAD:

QURANIC RATIONALITY and SOREN KIERKEGAARD'S THEORY OF RELIGIOUS EVOLUTION TO COUNTER NIHILISM

The Quran is not a book of Science, but a book of signs. According to Marmaduke Pickthall, to find scientific treatises in Holy Quran is futile. Because the Quran..

..serves a much greater purpose than that. It is meant to tell man how to live a life of purpose while continuously contemplating the intricacies of the Universe. The Quran serves to tell man the philosophical and metaphysical answers of this life .

Science is not a suitable candidate to teach man ethics, metaphysics and other deep facts that a man needs to understand this life and be a better person. The signs in the Quran tell the man to observe and wonder , to use his reason and intellect( an underlying theme of Quran)..

...to appreciate that the material realm created with much perfection is definitely a product of a Supernatural Power, and that is Allah Almighty. Soren Kierkegaard's concept of religious evolution gets applied here....

First , the man is in the Aesthetic stage, where he looks at the universe and observes them ( mentioned in Quran) and concludes that there is an entity that has made them and all the natural laws, and in return , he appreciates that entity , which is God.

He then enters the Ethical stage, where he knows God exists and is the sole Creator , and hence tries to be ethical and scrupulous to gain the mercy of Lord.

Third stage is the Religious stage, where he after appreciating the existence of God and being ethical, starts to worship Him, believing that there is more to the material realm in which he lives and submits to the Will of God.

Such an evolution is needed in this nihilistic era

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