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The way societies treat scientists

In the Name of God

How have different societies treated researchers during history?
We have prepared the following article by reviewing Professor Mosavi's scientific and philosophical booklets which briefly explains the path of some scientists and researchers in life in order to try to respond to the above question.
 Which scientist and which era should we discuss? Should we discuss Xenophanes? Or should we talk about the life of Ghazali? Or should we discuss Stewart, the British philosopher, or Einstein, Hegel or Kant?
 We mention these names but do not have the intention to confirm the viewpoints and opinions of any of the mentioned philosophers. We only aim to discuss how the societies of their times treated them.
In a society where most people embrace science with their hearts, scientists will be highly respected. Wherever there is humanity and justice, people act righteously in this regard. But if there is no humanity and justice, the truth will be destroyed and feelings will rule.

We look at the life of Kant, the famous German philosopher of the 18th century. He is considered one of the high-ranking philosophers of Europe and the Europeans highly believe in his philosophy and consider him one of the greatest philosophers of the world and at the level of Aristotle and Pluto.
A European scientist says the following about Kant's scientific greatness:
Kant is as strong as a mountain where philosophy is concerned.
This is how great they considered him to be. The reason for this is his criticism and the distinction he made between the sensible and the intelligible perspectives in philosophy. For this reason he was very highly respected. This is in spite of his opposition to some viewpoints of other great philosophers.
As for Divine Philosophers who have endangered their bodies and souls to secure the doctrines of Tawhid (The Oneness of God) and Nabuwat (The Prophethood) and Wilayat (The authority invested in the Prophet and the Ahlul Bayt as representatives of Almighty Allah on this earth) and Ismat (The innocence of our Imams) in the world from the beginning of their lives forever; how were they treated?
 One of these great philosophers who lived in the 17th century was Sadr ad-Din Muhammad Shirazi also called Mulla Sadra. How was he treated? How much value did the people of his time give this great man with all his knowledge, whose philosophy was accepted by the East and West as a principal? Why was he forced to migrate from Isfahan, which was the place where he received his knowledge from, and leave behind the entire inheritance of his father, and secretly flee to Murcheh Kharan in Isfahan? He then traveled to Mashhad and on the way met Sheikh Bahaie and Shah Abbas. Later he went to Shiraz and taught at the Allah Werdi Khan School. Why did he travel from one caravan to another until he reached the city of Qum and spent many years of his life there and finally in a low populated and unknown village outside the city of Qum called Kahak? There he initiated the composition of his main work, his philosophical and theological summa, al-Hikma al-muta‘aliya fi-l-asfar al-‘aqliyya al-arba‘a (Transcendent wisdom of the four journeys of the intellect), popularly known as al-Asfar al-arba‘a (The Four Journeys).
Did such a great person with all his scientific works deserve to be treated in such a way and be forced to continually migrate from one place to another?

 Nowadays do we truly value scientists as we should?



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