Science and long life

A new study confirm that life of educated people is longer than life of the uneducated, because the more educated human is the less the probability to be infected by diseases. Let us read…..

Modern scientists admit that all recent advancement in technologies and computer sciences are referred to a Muslim scientist, he is al-Khwārizmī.

Al-Khwārizmī was born in a Persian family and scientists believe that his contributions had a great impact on language. “Algebra” is derived from al-jabr, one of the two operations he used to solve quadratic equations and algorithm stem from Algoritmi, the Latin form of his name.

Adrian Baddeley a professor of Statistics at the University of Western Australia in the School of Mathematics and Statistics say: “Modern mathematics owes much of its existence to Islam as Islamic mathematicians of the Middle Ages developed many of the fundamental cornerstones of modern mathematics. The word algebra comes from the Arabic al-jabr, “

The field of algebra was developed by Muslim mathematicians in the Middle East and India. And algorithms, the processes of mathematics and computer science, are named after the great Arabic mathematician al-Khwarizmi.”

Also He added “The Prophet Mohammed enjoined Muslims to seek learning. The enlightened cultural traditions of Islam ensured that the mathematical works of previous cultures, such as the ancient Greeks, were preserved rather than destroyed. Euclid’s geometry is only known to us because it was preserved in Arabic by Muslim scholars.”

Adrian says about numbers “Our modern number system is called Hindu-Arabic in recognition of its origins in the number systems of India and Arabia. Our number system depends fundamentally on the number 0 (zero) which was invented by Arab mathematicians. “

Educated live longer

Recent researches proved that better education increase the chance of a long life otherwise less educated people do not benefit from this trend.

For many years, it was known that there is a relation between income and length of life because people who have more money don’t eat cheap products and can afford expensive medical services that are not paid by health authorities.

But now there is evidently a relationship between education and people’s health. According to the study which held by David kotler and Ellen Meara his fellow professionals in Harvard University they found that between 1981-1988 and between 1990 and 2000, people who stayed more than 12 years in education have long life than others who stayed less years.

Therefore, they expect that born people in 1975 who have higher education may live till they reach 82 years old. But others who have less education may live till they reach 75 years old.

Researchers believe that one explanation for this gap in lifetime is the habit of smoking because less educated people tends to bad habits like smoking but educated people are avoiding the definite danger of smoking.

The above photo for students in a university, scientists say that educated people avoid the risk and danger of many habits like smoking where the less educated don’t care about that so their life may be less than others.

Islam is the religion of science

Science in Islam has a special concern so that Allah Almighty urges people to learn and look for science as He says: (Allah will exalt in degree those of you who believe, and those who have been granted knowledge. And Allah is Well-Acquainted with what you do.){Sûrat Al-Mujâdilah – The Woman Who Disputes –verse 11}.

Also the first order Allah Almighty gave to prophet Mohamed peace be upon him is the reading because the first descended word in Qur’an was (Read) and that was in the following holy verse: (Read! In the Name of your Lord, Who has created (all that exists),){ Sûrat Al-‘Alaq – The Clot –verse1}.

Prophet Mohamed peace be upon him assured on the benefits of science but the benefits are not limited in this life but it extend to the hereafter as he says in the hadith: “when man die his deeds are terminated expect: the supplication of one of his children to him, a continuous charity or a useful science that people can get benefit from it”[Hadith Sahih by ALalbany] .

Here, prophet Mohamed peace be up him not only stress on the importance of science but it must be useful to humanity because there are many fields of sciences that are destructive to civilizations and for human

Wealth is perishable, so in our life we see people may commit suicide if they lost their money but people who are in the right way and follow the principles of Islam and care about science and continuous learning shall leave a useful science to humanity which benefits them in this life and in the hereafter.

At the end we should not forget some famous Muslim scientists who didn’t leave money but they left many useful sciences such as : al-Khwārizmī , Jabir ibn Hayyān, Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi , Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn Sīnā , Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham and recent scientists such as: Ali Moustafa Mosharafa, Ahmed Zewail…..And many other scientists over the years

Thanks Allah for the blessings of Islam

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By: Abduldaem Al-Kaheel

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