An Intellectual Barrier

nature from its pedestal as an object of worship. It led directly to the initiation of research and investigation into natural phenomena. Initially, this process was started in ancient Baghdad, Cordova, etc., among Muslims, but this task was carried out entirely by Europeans after the Crusades. For this reason, the existence of our modern materialistic civilisation is generally attributed by historians to the West. The first half of the 7th century revolution was the starting point of a new age of scientific inquiry. The present age has seen the culmination of this process in a scientific revolution. This present scientific secular revolution is, in reality, an Islamic revolution. The Quran, revealed in the first quarter of the 7th century, repeatedly mentions that in contemplating heavenly and earthly phenomena, you will find the signs of God in them. However, at the time of the revelation of the Quran, these signs of God were not fully exposed: they were hidden in nature. For this reason, there was no desired framework within which man could ponder over the Quran. God wished to provide man with such a framework. The greatest hindrance to this happening was the ancient monarchical system. Imperialism, which ran counter to the scheme of God, had closed