Islamification of universities, prerequisite for Islamization of knowledge

AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Prominent Shia source of religious emulation Ayatollah Javadi Amoli says Islamization of knowledge requires Islamification of universities.

Addressing a group of university and seminary experts in Quds auditorium of Imam Reza (AS) holy shrine establishments, the prominent Ayatollah said Islamic university depends upon Divine and Quranic knowledge to flourish. "Islam possesses the sort of knowledge that establishes a link between us and God."

According to him, Islamification of universities is the key to uprooting economic corruption as well.

Referring to various aspects of Islamic knowledge, he said: "When inviting mankind to achieve knowledge, celestial religions ask people to acquire Islam-based knowledge because it will open a path toward God.”

He added: "If a field of science is based on religious theme, its product, goal and atmosphere will be religious too.

The top Shia scholar is of the opinion that in acquiring knowledge, it is necessary but not sufficient to be knowledgeable. "The Holy Quran does not merely invite man to acquire knowledge and reason in order to be knowledgeable and rational."

Elsewhere, Ayatollah Javadi Amoli said sciences are either on Act of God or act of man, saying "The theme of some branches of science is on God and some others on human beings."

"Whatever existing in the skies and the earth has no purpose but to direct mankind toward God and when a science does not reflect this greatness, it is blind vis-à-vis Divine power and magnanimity," the Shia scholar pointed out.

Concluding his remarks, Javadi Amoli said: "When the university recognizes the earth but not understand its creator, it is a blind center. Universities will be Islamic only when their knowledge becomes Islamic and this should be elaborated for all university researchers."

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