ملخص الجهاز:
In time, and with varying degrees of success, the paradigm of positivism gradually displaced traditional and religious modes of thinking, with the result that generations of third world thinkers grew up convinced that the only way to "progress" and reform their societies was the way of the secular West.
Moreover, it is this paradigm that has had the greatest influence on the way different peoples perceive life, the universe, and the role of humanity as well as providing them with an alternative set of beliefs (if needed) and suggesting answers to the ultimate questions.
As a result, many practicing Muslims have inclined toward rationalizing whatever appears to challenge their constructs in this regard or to contradict their concepts of the universal nature of positivism and the secular paradigm.
In short, the crisis of the Muslim mind and the absence of intellectual creativity or an ijtihad mentality have stymied the development of a contemporary Islamic paradigm of knowledge.
The first stream, which produces the Muslim world's technical experts, scientists, social scientists, intellectuals, and makers of public opinion, is based on and functions completely within the secular positivist paradigm.
Revelation also gives order to establish human concepts, clarifies the relationships between God, humanity, and the universe, and then regulates these in such a way as to develop an integrated tawhid-based society.
The oneness of humanity is a dimension that endows the Islamic paradigm of knowledge with the ability to effect constructs.