All praise is due to
Allah, the Lord of the Worlds. Peace and blessing be upon whom Allah sent as a
mercy to the Worlds, upon his Family, his Companions and his Brothers till the
Day of Resurrection.
The word “Secularity” - (Al-`Ilmâniyya)
in the Arabic language - is a term that has absolutely no relation with the
word "Science" (`Ilm) or its derivations. From the political
point of view, secularity means "Irreligious power" (i.e. religion
should not be involved in power). It is commonly defined in many Islamic books as
"The separation of religion from the state". However, this meaning is
limited and does not state the reality of secularity, which involves the
individual and the behavior that have no relation with the state. This is why
we can express it differently in a more conformable way to the reality of
secularity, which is “The establishment of an irreligious life”. Regardless the
fact that secularity, whose doctrine and philosophy emerged under the
protection of the western civilization, was influenced by the falsified Christianity
and socialism, the irreligious secularity is a worldly ideology aiming at
isolating the religious influence on life. It calls to set up life on material
basis in its different domains: political, economical, social, ethic, judicial
and others, also on the bases of the absolute worldly knowledge, under the
power of reason and experimentation, taking into consideration interest, by
adapting the principle of utilitarianism over all the domains of life, in
power, politics and ethics based on the Machiavellian principle "The end
justifies the means". Thus, far from the religious recommendations and
prohibitions which are restricted in the individual’s mind and do not go with
them beyond his personal and private relation between him and his Lord.
Furthermore, he is not allowed to express himself, but only in matters of
religious rituals and ceremonies, which consist of weddings, festivals,
funerals and others.
Secularity, which is
based on the materialistic tendency, is soon emanated from the irreligious
doctrine, whose utmost aim is fighting religion and removing it from all fields
of the public life, in addition to excluding people of religion and its
protectors and limiting their influence by isolating them from educational
domains, institutions and scientific institutes, and preventing religious
knowledge. So, its highest aim is to establish a state and a society where
religion is confined to the individual level, and make people of the Islamic society
feel brotherhood in state, regardless the fact that they are not brothers in
religion.
Nevertheless, the truth
is not really perceived by those who divide secularity, on the one hand, into
atheistic one, which radically denies the existence of the Creator and does not
at all recognize something in matter of religion, and on the other hand, into non-atheistic
secularity that believes, theoretically, in the Creator but rejects any
relation between Allah عز وجل and the men’s life. It calls to isolate
religion from the world and life, and rejects, explicitly or implicitly, the
legislation of Allah. Because atheism is the nature of secularity in all its forms
since atheism is to depart and to deviate from Allah’s religion and legislation
including all leaning or tendency towards religion. This is what essentially
leads to incredulity in Allah, the association to Him in what is illicit,
transgress something forbidden by Him, and leave any of the recommendations of
Allah.
Besides, the origin of
atheism is all what contains the association to Allah in His general Lordship,
and denying Allah’s Names, attributes or Acts.
The predication of
secularity represents a huge danger to the religion of Islam and to Muslims,
and the majority of the Muslims are not aware of its reality because it
disguises behind different masks such as patriotism, socialism, nationalism,
and others. As well as, it hides behind destructive theories like Freudianism, Darwinism,
or Evolutionism
and others. Its partisans pretend relying on attested scientific arguments
whereas they are just weak, deficient and specious arguments rejected by reason
and reality:
﴿كَمَثَلِ
الْعَنكَبُوتِ اتَّخَذَتْ بَيْتًا وَإِنَّ أَوْهَنَ الْبُيُوتِ لَبَيْتُ
الْعَنكَبُوتِ لَوْ كَانُوا يَعْلَمُونَ﴾ [العنكبوت:
41].
The meaning of the verse:
﴾As
the parable of the spider that makes for itself a house; and most surely the
frailest of the houses is the spider's house did they but know﴿ [Al-`Ankabût (The Spider): 41].
Especially, the one that
gives the appearance of a partisan to the religion in order to confuse and to lead
ordinary Muslims astray. In fact, it does not prevent the pilgrimage and prayer
in the mosques. On the contrary, it contributes in their construction, it takes
part in celebrations and festivals, it offers rewards and gifts for the imams
and those who learn the Koran by heart, and show neither struggle nor
antagonism against religion but with very fervent attempts to restrict religion
in mosques and isolate it from the domains of life.
Among the aspects and
domains of secularization which are kept off from religion:
- Politics
and power, the adaptation of secularization in these fields is apparent and not
hidden from the observers.
- Secularization
of teaching and its methods, a fact not refuted by those who are reasonable.
- Secularization
of economy and financial structures, clearly known by experts.
- Civic,
social and ethic laws are undoubtedly secularized.
In fact, secularism makes
of the spiritual values negative ones. In this manner, it makes the way free to
the spread of atheism, westernization, libertinism and ethic anarchy. It calls for
the women’s liberation according to the western style that does not condemn
illegal relations between the two sexes. This is what helps to open widely the
doors to shameful practices that, consequently, lead to the destruction of the
family’s existence and to its disunion. Thus, with such practices, generations
are formed with an irreligious education, in a society where neither an
impediment or a religious barrier nor a voice of a living consciousness exist,
which are substituted by agitations of worldly passions like interest, covetousness,
the struggle for life, and other material hopes regardless of spiritual values.
It is this kind of
secularity that is spread in the Muslim and Arab world, through the effect of colonialism
and the campaigns of Christianization and evangelization. Also, because of the
improvidence of our compatriots, deluded with illusions, who brandished its
slogan, and executed the plans of those who have drawn them and supported them to
confuse ordinary people with specious arguments and pretensions of extreme disorientation
that founded their predication, which consists of:
- Slandering
the Noble Quran and making the prophecy doubtful.
- Pretending
that the revelation is inactive and unable to adapt itself with civilisation,
and Europe progressed only after getting rid of religion.
- Pretending
that Islam neglects the pursuit of the evolution of life, calls for repression,
and persecutes the freedom of thought.
- Pretending
that Islamic religion has already completed its aims and remains in it only a
set of rituals and spiritual practices.
- Pretending
that the Arabic language lacks or takes a long time to adapt itself with science
and progress, and it is unable to pursuit civilization and development process.
However, even if Arabic is the official language in Muslim countries, but still
it is marginalized in the majority of administrative institutions, in
universities and medical fields, especially in North African countries where
the French language has replaced it and really becomes the practiced language
of speaking and of communication. Nevertheless, the Arabic language has
gradually regressed and loses ground according to plans already prepared and
studied after knowing that Arabic is the language of the Quran and the key of the
revelation sciences.
- Pretending
that the revelation has already been practically applied at the level of
politics, power, and in other domains. Because, they pretend that the Islamic jurisprudence
draws its prescriptions from the Roman law.
- Pretending
the harshness of the revelation in its retributions such as: lex talionis,
amputation, being stoned to death, flagellation … and decide on retributions
that are more appropriate by taking irreligious laws and methods from the West,
by imitation, which are considered more clement and more lenient.
Eventually, these are the
set of pretensions that secularists rely on, who work in order to interrupt the
revelation of Allah عز وجل by different means such as personalities, magazines,
journalism, and other plans. In addition to this, they want to separate the
authentic religion from the social life, and reduce it in the narrowest limits
and domains according to the leanings and practices of the West who aims at breaking
the commandments of Islam and releasing it from all its obligations and values.
Besides, they want to alter the Muslim identity, cut them off from their
religion, and lose their loyalty to it and membership to their community
through the alliance to the West full of hatred, and by interchanging the
values, notions, terms and authentic Islamic conceptions with western ones, in
a manner that the lifestyle will be changed to that of the West, and by
changing the way of thinking and acting so that it suits the thinking and deeds
of the West. They also aim at changing the ethical and social behavior with the
allegation that it is a modernization of the legislative, juridical and penal
systems; and this in a manner that goes with the civilizational way, by
imitating the western systems and legislations, all this under the banner of
development and renewal.
Many individuals of the
Islamic nation were deeply influenced by secularity, and this is obvious in the
fields of institutions, power, Sharia, jurisprudence and education. This
influence is due to what was spread of ambiguities around Islam, its language,
Quran and Prophet, as we previously mentioned.
Many social and political
institutions were influenced by these pernicious notions and proceeded to
develop their countries by focusing on secularizing the state, whether under
the guise of nationalism, socialism, patriotism or others. As for the other
institutions with Islamic tendency, they are also influenced by secularity – save
those whom Allah Has protected by His mercy – they have of religion a limited
conception since they restrict it to its civilizational aspect.
Islam, religion and state
rejects categorically this duality, which consists of making a strong barrier between
the material and the spiritual world; it is considered an apostasy. Moreover,
Islam, within its sane and pure nature, its correct dogma and morality, does not
accept the spread of the western social evils such as atheism, libertinism,
ethic anarchy, and other vices, ideological and moral impurities which bring
the destruction of the doctrine's unity, the family and the society existence.
In fact, Islam commands
to Muslim to be entirely to Allah in all domains of life: his deeds, his words,
and his behaviors. His life as well as his death belongs to the Allah عز
وجل:
﴿قُلْ إِنَّ
صَلاَتِي وَنُسُكِي وَمَحْيَايَ وَمَمَاتِي للهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ * لاَ
شَرِيكَ لَهُ وَبِذَلِكَ أُمِرْتُ وَأَنَاْ أَوَّلُ الْمُسْلِمِينَ﴾
[الأنعام: 162-163].
The meaning of the verse:
﴾Say
(O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم): "Verily, my Salât (prayer), my sacrifice, my
living, and my dying are for Allâh, the Lord of the 'Alamîn (mankind,
jinns and all that exists) He has no partner. And of this I have been
commanded, and I am the first of the Muslims﴿
[Al-An`âm (The Cattle): 162-163].
The perfect knowledge
belongs to Allah. Our last prayer is all praise is due to Allah, the Lord of
the Worlds. Peace and blessing be upon our Prophet صلى الله عليه
وآله وسلم, his Family,
his Companions and Brothers till the Day of Resurrection.
