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Interesting fact of the day:
Islamic medicine was well ahead of its time when it came to the treatment of the mentally ill. the Quran demanded the those with mental illness be taken care of and treated kindly, this was reflected in how doctors of the time cared for the mentally ill and very much a departure from the attitudes of other cultures at the time where the mentally ill were demonized or quite literally treated as possessed.
Here is the specific quote from the quran translated to english:
"Do not give your property which God assigned you to manage to the insane: but feed and clothe the insane with this property and tell splendid words to them." -- Sura 4:5
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@freemo Yes, Islam actually WAS ahead of its time like 1000 years ago. Somehow they regressed after then. To me it shows that the more strict the doctrine, the more backwards it gets. 1000 years ago Christianity was the strict one. In some countries here it still is, and those countries are also kinda backwards in my eyes.
This is Mur 
@mur2501 Good point. Things definitely started to change around then. Christianity went from the 'Dark Ages' to the 'Age of Enlightenment'. Islam had that about 1000 years ago, they truly had a golden age going on. Mathematics, medicine, etc, that was at the pinnacle back then. Even the Christian world looked up to them.
I don't know what happened that it changed. Maybe governments changed and became more strict.
And we all know what happens to very strict societies... They won't be able to be creative and develop.That counts for ALL religions, not just Islam. That counts for ALL societies, regardless whether they're religious or not.
Repressive rule is never a good idea.
@mur2501 Mm, I would say that Enlightenment for christianity got sped up considerably during the time that the printing press got invented. Then around that time, people decided to translate the bible into the local language, so people understood it more. And because of the printing press, it could be mass-produced and spread even more easily.
Originally the church didn't want it to be translated either. They let priests interpret it to the masses. But thankfully they couldn't stop progress, the printing press was there to stay. The church started to lose its iron grip, and it started to become 'bye bye Dark Ages!'
It's best to be able to teach the people to educate themselves instead of discouraging it.
@trinsec
Probably the upheaval in islam will come with the modern technology
@freemo