In his Friday Sermon of 27
December 2013, the Khalifatullah Hadhrat
Munir Ahmad Azim Sahib (atba) of Mauritius spoke profoundly on the
instrumental role of science and the intrinsic merit of a moral compass offered
by faith in the construction of true humanism and social order and the perils of rigidism so as to avoid the pitfalls of blind faith and value-neutral science.
Read the Extracts from the Friday Sermon:
"We have seen
that science and faith, far from being contradictory, are perfectly
complementary. Another question now arises: is it possible that science and
faith can substitute each other whereby one takes the place of the other?
After defining
the role of science and of faith, it will not be necessary either to ask this
question or to answer it. It is clear that science
cannot replace faith; faith which in addition to the light and power, gives
us love and hope, enhances the level of our aspirations, and which moreover not
only helps us in choosing goals and objectives and guide us in the way we have
to go to reach, but moreover makes us change certain goals and aspirations, which
instinctively and by nature, focus on individualism and self-centeredness to
aspirations based on love and spiritual passion of goodness; it (faith) is an
instrument at our disposal, it can transform our essence and our quiddity. Faith cannot also replace science which
makes us have knowledge of nature and discover its laws, and allows us to know
ourselves.