On Spirituality and Technology
Abu Mus’ab at IslamBlog analyzes the relationship between technology and spirituality, and how the synergy of the two can lead a nation to triumph.
So think of a society that uses both, technology and spirituality together. That’s what Muslims did during the Abbassid caliphate. We were the best in technology at the time and we were a military power. Our collapse, which came many centuries later, came because we lagged technologically and spiritually.
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I don’t know enough history to get too specific, but my sense is that when one group of people gets defeated by another it’s been all about technology and not spirituality.
Just think, for example, of the many cultures in North and South America that were decimated by the nations of Western Europe. I think it took a lot of spiritual ignorance and immaturity for Europe at that time to fail to appreciate the beauty of so much of what it was destroying. The aboriginal peoples were often viewed as “savages” of subhuman status worthy only of being killed off or enslaved.
Jazakallah for linking to this.
Paul,
“I don’t know enough history to get too specific, but my sense is that when one group of people gets defeated by another it’s been all about technology and not spirituality.”
Not true. The Muslims quashed two empires (the Byzantine and Persian) before the religion of Islam could reach North Africa and Europe and Asia.
Both these empires had armies that were better equipped, immensely more in number and had centralized governments (which wasn’t the case in Arabia) Yet they were defeated because of zeal that the Muslim warriors carried then. And this zeal wasn’t mere nationalism but mainly due to their spirituality.
The Byzantines would note that the Muslim fighters were knights during the day, fighting with valor and monks in the night, staying awake late at night praying.
Thank you for your comment though.
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