Today that is the reality faced by the Modern Muslim community. The fields of life born from the scientific disciplines that we call non-religious are far from our control. The Muslim world is lagging, for example, in the areas of economy and welfare, Information technology, Science and genetics, and so on, because they do not master Science. How can we carry out God’s mandate as khalifatullah fil ardh if we do not master the knowledge?
There have been many pieces of research and studies that trace the causes of the decline of Muslims. One of them is about the dichotomy between religion and general Science. In the golden age of the Muslim world, until around the 15th century, there was no dichotomy of Science into religious and non-religious Science. All generations of Muslims study all disciplines with the same obligation. Thus, leading Muslim scholars were born who mastered various disciplines.
However, when (Western) Europe began to reach a period of enlightenment after “borrowing” knowledge from the Muslim world, and at the same time, the Muslim world experienced a setback due to internal conflicts, a new chapter of the dichotomy of Science began, until the terms religious science and non-religious Science emerged. In fact, what is often referred to as “infidel science”, the knowledge brought by Western civilization, is a science that originates from the Muslim world.
Logical fallacy and misguided interpreting of Science (religion) are what have been carried over to this day. From an early age, we were “cocked” that those who are guaranteed to enter heaven are those who are hafiz of the Quran or those who master religious knowledge. The mining expert? Wallahualam. That is the goal of Gymnastiar Putra.