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Today inshallah, let's do one of our

atypical talks inshallah a little bit about

Islam and science and also

One of the most interesting stories in our history and also a little bit about the decline of science a lot of

Various topics coming together and the persona I chose to inshallah illustrate some of these lessons is one of the

Greatest scientists not only in our tradition, but in fact in all of human history

So much so that in fact most modern

Researchers say that this particular person is the father of modern science and he is somebody by the name of Ibn Al-Hatham

Ibn Al-Hatham now our story is not going to be just about him is going to be broader than him

But we have to begin with him so that we understand what we're talking about Ibn Al-Hatham was born around

960 CE in Basra

His name is Al-Hassan Ibn Al-Hassan Ibn Al-Hatham and so Al-Hassan Ibn Al-Hassan the West called him Al-Hazin

Al-Hazin, Al-Hatham Al-Hazin so in the West they called him Al-Hazin and he will grew up in Basra and from a young age

He started studying the sciences in particular physics and

Optics and he started writing he wrote over

250 books. I mean this is a polymath and he rose in fame now

There's an interesting story here, and it is said that one of the reasons why he chose to study science

Instead of religious studies, which was the more common at the time was that in the Abbasid caliphate at the time at the end of the 10th century

There was a lot of sectarianism going on which is very true

So a little bit of footnote here the

Vizier dynasty was the boyhood or the Bouye dynasty and this is a dynasty that is not Sunni in nature

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