Summary
Ibn Sina Suhrawardi: Three Muslim Sages
The golden age of Islam in terms of spiritual and religious life, as well as in terms of the realization of Islamic ideals, is the time when the Prophet Muhammad, may God's peace be upon him, lived, and the days when the first Muslim communities in Medina were established and strengthened. Just as a stem grows from a sown seed and finally, after a certain time and nutrition in a suitable land, its fruit comes, so also the tree of Islamic civilization a few centuries after planting its seed bore fruit and its intellectual and artistic fruits were shown, and the pre-nourishment of that tree during the past centuries was the previous civilizations that Islam inherited. They contributed to the even better growth of that tree. Only when the Islamic community was completely consolidated and when the principles of Islamic revelation were realized in concrete forms, so that such a new civilization, despite the non-Islamic elements that entered it, could be given a specific, Islamic color, only then did the arts and sciences as well as philosophy and metaphysics reach their peak...
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