Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Lexicon
webster
dictionary
Principle of natural
morality that
independent of
revealed religion
RISES OF
SECULARIST
S
STATEMENTS
ON THE
SOCIETY
Lati
n
wor
ds:
sae
culu
m
Encyclopae
dia
America
Chamber
Twentieth
s
Dictionar
y
Of this thing
Temporal and related
to worldly things
The right of
Postulate
freedom of every man to
think for
thought
himself
Emphasize on worldly
affairs regardless of what
happen in the hereafter
SECULARISM
Emphasize of the replacement of
religion with scientific and rational
thoughts
G.A Almond and G.A Powell
secularization
men
become
increasingly rational, analytical and
empirical in their action
Arnold Toynbee
replacement of religion with
technology
Wilbert G.Moore
substitution solution of human
situations with rational ones.
Harvey Cox
Loosing of the world from
religious understanding itself.
Breaking of all supernatural myths.
symbolie liberation of human
minds.
NO !
ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE :
This is wrong because Islam has already fixed its value system or
morality, which will not change throughout ages. i.e : Adultery
Forbidden 1400 years ago and will always be forbidden.
Secularism implies , that divine guidance , workship of God, and
obedience to Him should be confined to a personal life of man and all
other affairs in this world should be determined by his own wishes and
convenience.
Dissociates the influence of God and religion in all aspects of human of
mans life : education , politics and economy.
The acceptance of a system formulated by man means a preference of
the humans limited knowledge and experience over Divine Guidance .
Homosexuali
ty USA- legalized
the practice of
homosexual
marriage in
the name of
freedom of
expression and
choice.
Focus on the
happiness that
can be achieve
in the world.
Abortio
n
Avoid
responsibility
Denies the
role of family
institution
Solving
solutions
scientifically and
by technology
The act of abortion
is strictly
prohibited in
Islam
murder
Cruel act that
destroy feelings of
Education Aspect
(serious and dangerous since it directly responsible for the
intellectual quality of human beings )
Comte
Education in Islam
Knowledge should be gained and be used for better life in this
world as well as here after.
Secular only concentrate on acquired knowledge and world alone.
The result is that man is no longer concerned about who is he ,
where he comes from , what is his purpose of existence , who is
his God and so on.
Consequently , produces doctors engineers architects who lack
of religious foundation.
Acquired
God-given
knowledge
knowledge and
includes all
religious sciences,
natural and social
about belief ,
sciences such as
divinity proper
physics ,
conduct .
chemistry ,
Should be the
biology
utmost priority
astronomi and
Foundation for
more.
ones thoughts
or worldview.
Political aspects
Separation of religion and state (X)
Politics make decisions based on secular reasons.
Deceive people with democratic slogans like personal freedom,
people governing people, no religion in politic , no politic in
religion , religion is for God and state is for people.
Secularist view Islam as a religion to be practised in ritual
worships only and deny it as code of life.
Argued that prophet has not establish the formal system of
government and no such defines in Quran or sunnah.
Challenge the source of authority
Problems occurs nowadays are vary and secular are parallel with
modernization . Hence , it support the modern elements in land
refoms , legal code and courts to adjudicate civil and commercial.
Moral aspects.
In religious point of
view , morality
system can never
be formulated by
man due to his
limitations and
weaknesess, like
prejudice, greed and
selfish desires.
Mans knowledge
and experience are
limited.
CONCLUSION
There is no other way or system that urges the active
worship of Allah in its general and most comprehensive
sense other than Islam.
Fox example, Islam teaches that Muslims should fast
for a month every year (i.e. Ramadan) in order to
acquire piety and self-discipline and to develop
awareness of the needs and problems of others who
are starving or are in desperate need of food.
Such an awareness of the needs of others is not
enough on its own. Therefore, Zakaah (obligatory
charity) is prescribed to be distributed among the
segments of society that are in need of individual and
communal assistance.