The Relationship of Knowledge and Belief in The Islamic Thought

Abstract

Belief and Knowledge are two different things in terms of essence but there are common scope and properties of them. With this reason, they affect each other and need each other. Belief is not opposed to knowledge. Instead if you want to know anything, it takes a certain amount of belief. Man is a rational animal-our power of thought is what differsus from the loweranimals. By definition, faith is belief without reason. It does not strike people as an admirable trait if one can allow oneself to believe without any solid reason; faith is a dead end in logical reasoning. If you are willing to believe something because you feel it is true in your heart, that is a reason, though a very personal one that is by its very definition subject to individual assessment, which of course varies widely. However, we always try to rationalize everything in life, and give explains to everything like our beliefs. We have to think about God and religions in every way. It is normal and necessary thing for us.