 We are a thinking person's religion. Make no mistake about it. One of the meanings of Antalida al-Amr to Rabbatah, a servant girl will give birth to her mistress. One of the signs of the Sa'a of the hour given by the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam and the famous hadith of Gabriel. One of the meanings of this hadith is that the modern West was born from Islam, that Europe in the late antique was sunk in the dark ages. Violence, disease, ignorance was rampant and it was Europe's contact with Islam's intellectual tradition that begot Western civilization and brought them out of the dark ages and then the West turned around and colonized and subjugated its mother as it were. The point is, knowledge is at the centrality of our tradition.