📸 “Some Westerners claim to have discovered that knowledge is what benefits mankind, makes him more powerful, and prevails over nature. Thus they promoted empirical science to be used as an instrument of developing civilization and technology. This idea had its uses, but they went to such excess that it caused more damage than benefit….
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“It is not right to think of human….
📸 “It is not right to think of human perfection as the ability to secure maximum material benefits.” Source: Goal of life | Ayatollah Murtada Mutahhari (R)
“From the viewpoint of Islamic logic….
📸 “From the viewpoint of Islamic logic, such a belief would mean a deficient kind of worship; to show devotion and worship only in order to be rewarded in heaven. There are many references to this by the Imams (A) such as this: ‘Those who worship for fear, act like slaves fearing their master…’” Source:…
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“The perfection of man is to deserve and benefit….
📸 “The perfection of man is to deserve and benefit from God’s gifts. However, this is not possible in its utmost measure in this world, so people pray for securing maximum benefit in the next world. Speaking of such worship, Ibn Sina (Avicenna) says: ‘For such men, worship is like working for which a wage…
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“We are making out man….
📸 to be less than an animal for we do not evaluate any animal by the standard of its benefiting from the world, even though some people have no other thought but this in evaluating human beings. But there is no one who believes this to the extent of negating all spirituality.” Source: Goal of…
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