MATHEMATICS IN THEOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE
ISLAM, KNOWLEDGE AND MATHEMATICS Islam provides a complete way of life. It is obligatory for all Muslim, men and women to seek knowledge beneficiary for humankind. Islam has emphasized about seeking knowledge at a time when others were in ignorance. Consequently, Muslims intellect received the awakening call and soon they not only became an enlightened people but also they with the blessing of Allah (swt) surpassed other nations in all aspect of life and were known as most civilized people for many centuries. Muslims were blessed with wisdom and also they inherited the knowledge of the other civilizations and islamised it in moral framework. While Europe was in the dark ages, Muslims were aggressively advancing in the fields of medicine, mathematics, Education, physics, astronomy, geography, architecture, literature, science and technology, trade and business, banking system and defensive incapability etc. Many important discoveries were passing on to medieval European from Muslim intellect. The Arabic number system with the inclusion of zero which played a vital role in advancement of mathematics and the use of algebra, sophisticated instruments and good navigational maps etc. were also transferred from Muslim intellect. When Muslim became ignorant to their religious beliefs and obligations, they are in present doldrums position and a state of decadence. They are back benchers in science and technology, education, medicine, trade and business, banking system and defensive incapability. They failed to establish a just socio-moral and economic-political order in this world. They even became dependent to defend their ideological as well as geographical boundaries.