معصومه فتحی

The main aim of this paper is to demonstrate the effects of the existence and development of religion on Islamic civilization. It employs the analytical and descriptive method to analyze the data. The Islamic civilization starts from the seventh century A.D. as the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was born in 571 and started his mission in 610 A.D. The paper found that religion was at the heart of every civilization and has been an integral, a constitutive element in all past civilizations. A close study of the history of the civilization of mankind in the world yields one the idea that it has been religion, which is solely responsible for moderating and organizing human behaviour. It is religion, which controls and moderates the human behaviour and instincts in the social life, and obliges its followers, with a set of laws and commandments, to submit to restraint. The only internal and external agent that prevents any exercise of barbarism and savagery is definitely religion. It seeks, by encouraging and impelling man, to remind him of his dignity, self and talents, and of his role in bringing them to bud and blossom and to perfection. It makes man enjoy a just relationship, a reasonable freedom, a safe economy, sovereign humanistic values, and on the whole, the sublime spiritual and material state. This matter is evident in crucial role of religion in setting up Islamic Civilization and its development both in religious thoughts and the manner of the Holy Prophet of Islam.