Lecture 11

Parveen Akhtar

278-FE/MS(ECO)2/F11

Main Topic:

"Difference between Social Sciences and Physical Sciences"

Social Sciences and Physical Sciences are two different things. The laws of physical sciences cannot be applied at human beings because human beings are free. They have feelings, emotions etc. Any fixed law cannot be applied at them. If one person is bad today, he can become good person in future. They follow their nafs to spend their lives. Nafs has three types; 1) Nafs e Amara, 2) Nafs e Lawwaama, 3) nafs e Mutmainna. at which nafs, he follows, he will get his reward. If person follows his nafs, he feels happy but this happiness level is different in actual against to west. According to west, every thing which you want, should get it and this is actual happiness. But in reality, many surveys have been conducted which shows level of happiness. According to Islam, every thing which is according to orders of Allah is called actual happiness. Due to this happiness, person feels comforts in this world and in here after. no one law can apply to measure happiness. Social Sciences deals with human behavior which vary time to time, than how can we apply fix laws to predict behavior. Quran and Sunnah do not give us this permission and this is not hold in actual. According to west, human beings are selfish and they prefer themselves. But in actual like in ultimatum game and dictator game, they share amount with other player and show cooperation and fairness which is contradict the western theory of selfish behavior. So, human beings should follow the right path which suggest Allah Subhan Taalah.