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  • Essay / Ibn Rushd's Five Religious Problems - 764

    Like others before him, Ibn Rushd has been criticized for proposing that faith must be guided by reason. According to him, the noblest manifestation of love was to study God through his creation, the function of the brain. Ibn Rushd's rationality tended to predominate Islamic scholasticism, with efforts to orchestrate Islamic logic and reason in light of accessible Greek heritage. In the book “On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy (Kitab fasl al-maqal), he presents five interesting “problems”, as he called them. These are: the first problem: the creation of the universe, the second problem: the advent of the prophets, the third problem: destiny and predestination, the fourth problem: divine justice and injustice, the fifth problem: the day of judgment. I believe that Averroes' main arguments in the book are questions that come unconsciously to every human being's mind. The questions: where do we come from? And who created us? Divine law teaches that the world was created by God, as were living beings like humans. None of this was created by chance or by itself. Now that it is clear, through divine law, that the world was created by God, we begin to dwell on the question of "why"? Why was all this created? What is the goal? And this is where philosophy comes into play. Since philosophy is a study of the fundamental nature of existence, it can aid in a better understanding of religion. Averroes argues that philosophy and religion can never be in conflict because simple truth does not contradict truth. The correlation between philosophy and religion only makes sense because they complement each other. Philosophy is the way of thinking; religion being reason. Another key concern of Ibn Rus...... middle of article...... this consensus in matters of theoretical belief is impossible. Nevertheless, his philosophical achievements, the Islamic gender theory that Ibn Rushd repeated, did not last after him. In reality, he had no notable Muslim followers. In the field of Islam, his books have been generally neglected and some of his works have disappeared in their Arabic version. Fortunately, enthusiasm for his thinking remained alive among Jews and Christians. This is how his philosophical works and editorials on Aristotle were read throughout Europe's forties and the Renaissance. Thus, a philosophical precept, known as Averroes, arose around its Latin and Hebrew followers. Ibn Rushd advocated the study of philosophy while demonstrating religious tolerance and using reason in ways that would enable his audience to better understand Islam..