I cannot stress enough the importance of developing Islamic psychology – because psychological assumptions about the nature of the self and what it means to be human -underlie not only psychological therapies but the approach of governments to social welfare and education. In this way psychological models actually shape the agendas and priorities
Each and every time, regardless of the harm inflicted, the Prophet responded to the hostility with good manners and even made du`a’ for his abusers. Prophet Muhammad once said: “I have only been sent to perfect good manners.”
The scholar Gustave LeBon says, “The translation of the books of the Arabs, especially scientific books, remained virtually the only source of teaching in the universities of Europe for five to six centuries. We can say that the influence of the Arabs on some sciences such as medicine has lasted to this day. For the books of ibn Sina was still being expounded in Montpellier at the end of the last century.”
The westerners made contact with our civilization in the Middle Ages in Syria and in Andalusia, before that they had never known a king revolting against a pope, or the uprising of a people against a king. They never thought that they had the right to call a ruler to account or to support one who was oppressed.
Humans are not perfect; the term human in Arabic (insan) has the connotation of being forgetful. With this in mind, Islam lifted strains and brought ease in such situations when people fail to fulfill their obligations out of forgetfulness.
Out of Islam’s respect to human life and the high regard it gives to all living things, especially human beings, Muslim charity organizations and relief agencies all over the world felt it incumbent upon them to help our brothers in humanity in the Philippines after they were hit by the massive and destructive Typhoon Haiyan, November 2013.
Ibn Khaldun was the first to systematically analyze the functioning of an economy, the importance of technology, specialization and foreign trade in economic surplus and the role of government and its stabilization policies to increase output and employment.
Ibn Khaldun is one of the few successful theoreticians, who has analyzed the behavior of human beings and of society as an integrated whole in their totality as part of greater humanity in the rise and fall of civilization paralleled to the rise and fall of economic surplus, respectively.
Al-Sumait was an extraordinary human being who dedicated his life to doing good deeds. This man should be acknowledged and known for the major impact he had on millions of lives, not only in his hometown, but also worldwide.
The book and exhibition prepared by the FSTC does not cover 1001 inventions. The number was chosen as a counter argument against the Western perceptions of Islam that remembers the tales of 1001 Nights, oriental dances and Aladdin and his magic lamp every time the word Islam is uttered. “We wanted to show that Islam has other 1001s that were the founding stones of our current civilization,” al-Hassani says.