Discussion highlights relation of religion, culture
Sufi Islamic Scholar, Professor Ahmed Rafique Akhtar here on Thursday highlighted the relation of religion and culture in terms of mysticism and spirituality and called the young generation to follow true ethical values of this relation.
Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) in collaboration with Ministry of National Heritage and Integration arranged the lecture and discussion on ‘Deen Aur Saqafat Ka Rishta’.
Professor Rafique explained Islam as a modern and revolutionary religion. “Traditions are outcome of varieties which create new environment. In the beginning traditions oppose these varieties but gradually feel proud of it. The advancement of science and technology considered all religions as unreliable but not Islam,” he added.
“All scientific inventions and discoveries were unable to compete Qura’n. Unfortunately now people have stopped reading Qura’n with complete understanding and they are doing researches on the basis of modern sciences,” he said.
Culture is the system of shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviours and traditions of a particular human group, a way of living learned from, and shared by, the members of that group.
Understanding the concept of culture is key to understanding human behaviour.
He said that culture and religion are part of human life to create harmony in different matters. Participants including students and people from different walks of life took part in discussion to explore the subject and understand the concepts in detail.
Ahmad Rafique Akhtar (born April 15, 1941) has been associated with teaching for years and delivers lectures on different Islamic and philosophical topics all over the country and different places in the world. Many of his lectures have been published in books.
Ahmed Rafique is known as ‘Mystic of this Era’ who focuses on topics like mysticism, religion, today’s world, approach to Qura’n, Science and Islam.
[Picture: Professor Ahmad Rafique Akhtar. Photo: Wiki.]
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