Is Islam an environment that repels scholars, and can the misconception that Islamic civilization advanced by distancing itself from religion, and that Muslim scholars were corrupt in their creed or far from Islam, be refuted?

Islam does not contradict worldly and applied sciences, for they are communal obligations through which Islam came to build up this world and the hereafter. If Muslims fall short in them, this is a deficiency on their part and not on the part of Islam, which encouraged seeking them. The imams of Islam paid attention to this, such as Imam Al-Shafi'i, who regretted the Muslims' negligence in medicine. Islamic history is rich with devout Muslim scholars in various fields, such as medicine, including: Abu Bakr Ibn Zuhr Al-Ishbili, Muhammad Ibn Abd Al-Rahman Al-Naysaburi, and Yusuf Ibn Haydarah Al-Rahbi. The claim that the advancement of the Abbasid state was due to its distance from Islam is absurd, and it cannot be said that Islam is an environment that repels scholars.