Science = Religion

Science does not equal religion and neither is religion, science. In truth, religion in itself awakens scientific enquiries. Why and how? Because the nature of human being is to enquire its being, its essence, its purpose, and hence scientific enquiries arise to satisfy this quest for the truth of man’s existence. And it is also the nature of man to investigate the nature and life itself as demanded by religion; more specifically Islam encourages the rediscovery of the interconnectivity between the created and the Creator, and to understand one's raison d'être (rational grounds for existence) in relation to God's grand plan. Thus religion is vital in awakening and guiding one's consciousness in questioning the existence through observation, in other words – through the art of observation, which is the basis of science.

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