{"id":6412,"date":"2024-07-10T07:43:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/certainty-of-religious-beliefs\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T13:26:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T13:26:57","slug":"certainty-of-religious-beliefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/certainty-of-religious-beliefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Certainty Of Religious Beliefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>My  question is that in philosophy there is a doctrine &#8220;pragmatism&#8221; which  define that &#8220;truth that we know today might be changed tomorrow as  future is clearly uncertain. We try to discover things in every branch  of knowledge just to solve the problems of today but we can be wrong in  future&#8221;. As we know that this is the principle on science, philosophy  and in fact all knowledge is based. Now we come to Islam. Again we try  to prove and defend the concept of God and other concepts by using  reason of worldly knowledge that we know. Then how are we certain about  those concepts as there are reasons against those concepts? How do we  believe in them as eternal and never reversible facts when every truth  can be changed?<\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>There are two types of truth and pragmatism relates to the second of these:<\/p>\n<p>The  first are called absolute truths like universal moral truths and  established truths which do not change with change in time or  circumstances or intellectual development as for example the oneness of  God, honesty, justice etc.<\/p>\n<p>The  second are called relative truths in which one has to apply one&#8217;s mind  on data to come to a conclusion. This includes interpretation from holy  texts and scientific theories. These truths can change when an  &#8220;alternative&#8221; and &#8220;more convincing&#8221; truth comes up.<\/p>\n<p>You can now see that the issue you have raised does not arise about the first type of truths.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Dr. Shehzad Saleem<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-01-29<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6412\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My  question is that in philosophy there is a doctrine &#8220;pragmatism&#8221; which  define that &#8220;truth that we know today might be changed tomorrow as  future is clearly uncertain. We try to discover things in every branch  of knowledge just to solve the problems of today but we can be wrong in  future&#8221;. As we know that this is the principle on science, philosophy  and in fact all knowledge is based. Now we come to Islam. Again we try  to prove and defend the concept of God and other concepts by using  reason of worldly knowledge that we know. Then how are we certain about  those concepts as there are reasons against those concepts? How do we  believe in them as eternal and never reversible facts when every truth  can be changed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1265],"tags":[2106,1789,1444,1335,1969],"class_list":["post-6412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faith-and-beliefs","tag-arguments","tag-faith","tag-god","tag-monotheism","tag-tawheed"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Certainty Of Religious Beliefs - Al-Mawrid Queries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/certainty-of-religious-beliefs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Certainty Of Religious Beliefs - Al-Mawrid Queries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"My question is that in philosophy there is a doctrine &quot;pragmatism&quot; which define that &quot;truth that we know today might be changed tomorrow as future is clearly uncertain. 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