Islam: The Creator of The Modern Age

~ 64 ~ soundly. That is why monotheistic religion gives it every encouragement. ISLAM: THE LIBERATOR OF THE MIND In ancient times, an intellectual climate dominated by polytheism tended to encourage the spread of superstition throughout the world. Such an atmosphere was necessarily unfavourable to the emergence of scientific ideas; that is why there was no country during that period in which learning and science could progress. It was only when the Islamic revolution put an end to this age-old harnessing of the intellect to polytheism that attitudes began, effectively, to change. ANCIENT GREECE In ancient Greece, where every object had a god or goddess associated with it, the greatest influence on the human mind was that of mythology—a collection of innumerable legends about lofty, immortal beings and superhuman heroes. Although an aura of mysticism surrounded their origins and deeds, the early Greeks regarded the mythological creatures as historical realities of whom they