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From: yamen%jomby@cs.wisc.edu (Soner Yamen)
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Subject: Quran
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Date: 9 Apr 91 06:12:16 GMT
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An excerpt:

Qur'^an & the Universe

To Muslims, the process of breathing life into the corpus of man's
understanding of the universe has become widely referred to as the
"Islamization of knowledge." But this is not simply a matter of
coloring current ideas and data in shades of Islam. Our higher
criticism and learning must be totally rethought, wiping away the
unbelieving premises on which today's narrow empiricism is based.
It is not ignorant and unhealty for man to continue the journey of
life a skeptic, doubting everything -even his own existence- until
otherwise proven. How small and foolish it would  be to confine
ourselves to a handful of limited senses.

Man's understanding is based upon inspiration from his Creator.
Revelation is the highest and purest kind of knowledge because it
comes from the All-knowing, All-seeing, Omniscient God -and man has
only one authentic, unchanged revelation to turn to that can unravel
the mysteries of the universe: the Qur'an, the last divine dispensation
from God to man.

So the first step in this sojourn begins with bismillah and opening
the Qur'an, where the Creator of the cosmos brings man from darkness
into light about his time-bound home.

wassalaam,
-sy-