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The universe by its meaning and structure is unified by interaction, integration and evolutionary learning in the midst of divine unity of knowledge. In the Qur’an, this phenomenology which inter-relates the unity of knowledge of the divine law with the world-system in explanatory ways is referred to as tawhid in relation to the world-system. The universe self-actualizes within this unified world-system and unravels itself. Thus, all sciences and human experiences occur in the midst of such interactive, integrative and evolutionary learning processes, rising from lesser to higher degrees of moral consciousness. Consciousness is essentially knowledge-induced. As a result of consciousness, the created artifacts of space and time appear. Within the dimensions of knowledge, space and time, the universe, and likewise the socio-scientific world-system, self-actualize in Truth. The universe thereby attains a mathematical state of simulated perturbation, whose curvature is never optimal in the usual sense of socio-scientific analysis that we encounter in received scientific analysis, as in the case of relativity physics or Newtonian physics. Within such a generalized worldview of the universe is the specific but integral sub-system of economics, finance, and society.
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Choudhury, M.A. (2016). Conclusion: The Ultimate Nature of Qur’anic Socioscientific Abstraction. In: Absolute Reality in the Qur'an. Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law, and History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58947-7_10
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