Q. Dear Abdullah thank you for the articles. I have another request, could you briefly explain to me the intellectual foundations of Islamic politics? Thank you.
During a visit to the local historical attractions, while a student in Amman (Jordan), a classmate made a remark which started an enthralling discussion on religion, culture and revival.
While admiring the remains and colosseums the Romans left behind, which still dominate parts of the Jordanian capital, my classmate commented, ‘when the Islamic revival or the Islamic state is established, these and other similar buildings should be destroyed – firstly because they remind us of the tragic history and the suffering of the Muslims, and secondly, these are un-Islamic and therefore, they ought be removed from Muslim lands’.
The New Statesman’s interview with Khaled Meshal, the Hamas leader, was one of the most significant interviews with the leading figure in a movement that has been demonised and excommunicated by most of the western world and its media. Read more…
President Sarkozy’s remarks about the Burka or the face veil reminds us about the intellectual foundation of France and most of the western nations, including our own country Britain. Since the 1789 French revolution, secularism continues to dominate the political and social intellectual milieu of the country promoting liberalist and capitalist agendas in all spheres of life. “laicite”, a concept that is cemented in the constitution of France believes in, among other things, the separation of church from the state, and the division of the private and public spheres. It is from this paradigm that Mr Sarkozy seeks to alienate a Muslim community reaching a staggering number of five million. Read more…
Islam is a comprehensive system where worship (`ibadah) and legislation (Shari`ah) are not divided into two separate actions of life. Read more…
Depending on their views of human nature and the place of man in the universe and in the wider context of existence, individuals and groups have developed their own understanding of values and worldview from which they formulate ideas, concepts and theories about individual and collective human life, and from which they devise and plan social and political institutions and thus implement their understanding or philosophy of life.
Secularism is an Ideology that denies the existence of God, or prophethood and revelation, or divorces them from playing any part in the public and social existence of human life. It is in complete opposition to the pure Islamic monotheism [Tawhid] which every Muslim must believe in. Thus, as one scholar states, that the difference between Secularism and Islam is ‘the difference between monotheism [Tawhid] and polytheism [Shirk]’. The two are diametrically opposed to each other as water is with fire. Read more…
Since its infancy, Islam had to endure both ideological and physical onslaught from its dissenters. In the medieval era our scholars like Imam Ghazzali had to defend the faith from the fallacies of the philosophers, and other Imams like Ibn Taymiyyah, who under severe hardships, defended the religion from the erroneous beliefs of some of the sects within Islam. In every age the creed of Islam seems to be under scrutiny [attack], both scholars, and more amusingly, laymen sought to place a question mark on the soundness, validity and applicability of the Islamic creed. But, with the grace of Allah He protected the religion from being tainted by the feeble efforts of so called ‘scholars’, ‘academics’ and other impostors and charlatans.
‘’Life is the farm land of the hereafter. Religion is inseparable from life. Sovereignty goes hand in hand with religion, for religion is the origin and sovereignty is the guardian. Anything that has no origin is doomed to ruin and anything that has no guardian is doomed to loss’’. Ihyah ‘Ulum ad Din [1/17, Chapter of Knowledge which is collective duty]
A response to Faisal Gazi on Secularism by Abu Gazi
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