Transhumanism - VI: final goals of technology
وَلَوِ ٱتَّبَعَ ٱلْحَقُّ أَهْوَآءَهُمْ لَفَسَدَتِ ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٰتُ وَٱلْأَرْضُ وَمَن فِيهِنَّ ۚ بَلْ أَتَيْنَـٰهُم بِذِكْرِهِمْ فَهُمْ عَن ذِكْرِهِم مُّعْرِضُونَ ٧١
And if the Truth had followed their desires, verily the heavens and the earth and whosoever is therein had been corrupted. Nay, We have brought them their Reminder, but from their Reminder they now turn away.
[Al-Quran 23:71, Translation: Pickthall]
Q23:71 states that if the truth had followed their desires, everything and everyone would have been corrupted.
Science seeks knowledge to understand the world around, while technology sets out to apply that understanding. Humans have been given the faculties to study, and understand, and apply, and the free will to decide which aims to pursue, and which not to pursue.
The Earth is dotted with the ruins of mighty civilisations bearing witness to the level of technological advancement they had reached.
The scriptures inform us that each mighty civilisation had received its warning from its messengers, and granted ample time to repent and change their ways. When they refused, they were completely annihilated.
So, there is a difference of perspective between scripture-inspired world view, and the atheistic world view.
Technological advances are attempting to make life easy and comfortable in so many ways. In the process, they are changing the original systems and processes. From a secular viewpoint, it is all about evolution, and improving the quality of life, even if in the process much of what's human is eventually sacrificed.
From a scripture-inspired point of view, the world has been created by a Creator, who made everything good. So, any changes in the original systems and processes can only degrade and ruin them. Species are going extinct, the climate is changing for the worse, the modern medical treatments in the past century or so have created more diseases and problems, our immunity is decreased, our food crops are being corrupted through GMO, and so on. All this because humans consider themselves smarter than the Creator who created them, and bestowed all the faculties upon them.
And when we eventually corrupt our own selves, who then will restore us back? We are setting ourselves up for destruction.
Entering Islam completely means submitting to Allah's Deen (Laws of Recompense) completely. We need to understand the urgency to immediately adopt Allah's Laws as our State's laws, so that in the limited time that has been granted to us in this life, we are able to make policies which maintain Allah's decreed systems and process, in all spheres of life. Eventually, Allah's Deen will replace all other deens. That has already been decreed.
All the prophets and messengers preached the same Deen, the universal Laws of Recompense. The Quran lists the Deen in three ayaat:
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