The development of contemporary science, as commonly known as modern science, cannot
be separated from a school of philosophy called positivism. It is a school of philosophy
dominantly influenced almost all aspects of both natural sciences, social sciences and
humanities. As the name implies, this school of thought prerequisites the presence of
empirical phenomenon, statistical measurement, and absenteeism of the relationship
between the researcher and the thing to research. Hence something which does not meet
the conditions, referring to positivism, would be something scientifically unacceptable.
Because of such doctrines, therefore it shows that this school of thought negated the
presence of non empirical phenomenon, non statistical measurement, and the involvement
of the researcher’s belief to the subject of the research. To understand adequately the
relationship between positivism and sacred things which are commonly non empirical
things , this paper elaborates through literary studies
