The knowledge which Muslims have to learn is called ’Ulûm-i islâmiyya (Islamic knowledge). Islamic knowledge consists of two component parts. The first is religious knowledge. It is also called ’ulûm-i naqliyya. This is the knowledge derived from four sources called Adilla-i shar’iyya, and are of two sections. The branches Tafsîr, Kalâm, and Fiqh of the knowledge of Ulûm-i zâhiriyya are written in their special books. The second one is ’Ulûm-i bâtiniyya. There can be no changes in either of them. The second component part of ’Ulûm-i islâmiyya is scientific knowledges or ’Ulûm-i ’aqliyya. It deals with the structures of matter and substances, and the alterations in them. They are discovered through experiments and calculations. Alterations in this aspect of knowledge is possible in course of time. Those disbelievers who changed religious knowledge to make it compatible with scientific knowledge are called philosophers and reformers of religion.
These people believe in their minds, not the words transmitted. Muslims who try to corroborate religious knowledge with scientific knowledge are called hukamâ. The meanings of some verses in the Qur’ân al-kerîm and also some hadîth-i sherîfs are not clear and cannot be comprehended exactly. These kinds of verses and hadîth-i sherîfs were explained with different meanings by different Islamic scholars. Thus, seventy-three groups who believe differently some of the facts which are to be believed emerged. Among them, the only one group whose belief is correct is called the Ahl-i sunnat or Sunnî. Those who derived wrong meanings are called heretics or the ones who have deviated from the right path. Shi’îtes and Wahhâbîs are in this group. A person who tries to corrupt the beliefs of a Muslim by giving wrong meanings to scientific discoveries is called a zindiq or sham scientist.
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