Thus the Qur'an also teaches us that we are born asleep and our job is to learn to become awake and more and more conscious of The Creator and the signs he has given us from which to learn. To make this learning easier Islam gives us an exercise program to fine-tune our spiritual selves. We then gradually learn to become more and more awake and like dream-time we move from darkness into light. The forbidding of sport hunting played a crucial role in the evolution of the Hima, among history's earliest wildlife conservation reserves. Unnatural or cruel methods of farming which deprive livestock of all enjoyment of life are prohibited in Islam.
Islamic monotheism is much different from western monotheism.
In the west monotheism means more a noun or doctrine or belief that there exists only one god. Any other belief is wrong, thus the noun is central. In the Olympics we see the science of Islam in sports. From Sweden every year we hear who won the Nobel Prizes, great people who have excelled in various acadamic or scientific endeavors. We all wish we could be among the great, know the great or even know about the greatest this or that.