Shouldn’t We Thank Islam for its Golden Age?

Printer-friendly versionSend to friendPDF versionWhat about the great minds of Islamic world, like Zakaria Razi, Ibn Sina, Ibn Rushd, Khayyam, Ibn Arabbi, Al Muari and many more? Shouldn’t we thank Islam for rearing these luminaries?  We should thank Islam for rearing Khomeini, Bin Laden, Umar and Ali. They killed people inspired by Islam. The thinkers of Islamic world were almost all apostates. Ibn Sina did not believe in the immortality of the soul and did not believe in a god that cares about the creation. His concept of God was very much similar to that of Espinoza. He was attacked vehemently by Al Ghazzali because of that.   Avicenna was a genius who started to teach medicine at the age of 20.  He lived during the caliphate of the Abbasids who were not very religious and generally tolerant rulers. His life was spared because he was much needed. Khayyam was obviously an apostate as you can see from every robai that he has composed. Hafiz memorized the Quran before he reached the age of 15. However, there is no praises of Muhammad in his poetries. When he came to age and became wiser, he stopped believing in Islam. Only a non-religious humanist would say: “Mei bekhor manbar besoozan, mardoom aazaari makon.” (Drink wine and burn pulpits, but don’t hurt people)  This is totally opposite with Muhammad’s instructions that prohibited drinking wine, used the pulpit and ordered his followers to be harsh and abusive to non-believers. Ar Razi spoke fearlessly against all religions, calling the prophets, disdainfully, “Billy Goats” and liars. Other great thinkers who were born and raised in Islamic countries also were not believers in Islam. These truths have been kept hidden from us. We have been lied to constantly. First Muslims persecuted these apostates and after their death they credited Islam with their works and contributions to science and learning. The reason the so called “Golden Age” in the Islamic world became possible was because the rulers in those days were more secular than religious and they tolerated the apostasy of the great minds.