Humanity in a New Age

HUMANITY IN A NEW AGE The intellectual revolution Islam ushered in, based on Tawheed, the unity of God, broke the mental block to open the doors to the investigation of nature, leading to scientific progress. I n the ancient past, human beings in large parts of the world worshipped various manifestations of Nature. This acted as a significant hurdle in the emergence of science or the study of Nature. For modern science to emerge, scholars needed to study Nature free of the belief that nature was something to be worshipped. However, because Nature had become an object of worship in most parts of the world for centuries, it was an insurmountable barrier. However, things changed with the advent of Islam. The intellectual revolution that Islam ushered in, based on Tawheed, the unity of God, opened the doors to the investigation of nature, leading to scientific progress. There were three distinct periods in the progress of modern science or the study of Nature. Firstly, the breaking of the mental block that I have just referred to. This began with the advent of Islam in Makkah and continued after that, up to the decline of the Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad in the mid-13th century. The