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Islam and Secularism By Sheikh Salman b. Fahd al-Oadah
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Islam and Secularism
By Sheikh Salman b. Fahd al-Oadah
General Supervisor of the IslamToday Website
INTRODUCTION
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Chapter One: A Contemporary Manifestation of Jâhiliyyah
Chapter Two: No Place for Secularism in the Muslim World
Chapter Three: How Secularism Came to Islamic Lands
Chapter Four: Defining a Secularist
Chapter Five: The Need to Confront Secularism
Praise be to Allah; we praise Him, seek His forgiveness, and turn to Him in repentance. We seek refuge with Him from the evils of our souls and the evils of our deeds. Whomever Allah guides, none can misguide, and whomever Allah leads astray, none can guide. I bear witness that there is no god but Allah alone without partner, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and Messenger.
This short treatise began as a lecture that I gave many years ago at the Abû Bakr Grand Mosque in Madinah. My speech was concise and quite general, though the topic itself is vast and multifaceted. I have kept this treatise equally as concise to provide for readers who just need a general introduction to this topic.
For those readers who want to explore this matter further, there are many books available. One of the best, in my opinion, is the book Secularism written by my esteemed colleague Sheikh Safar al-Hawâlî.
I have organized this treatise into the following chapters:
Chapter One: A Contemporary Manifestation of Jâhiliyyah Chapter Two: No Place for Secularism in the Muslim World Chapter Three: How Secularism Came to Islamic Lands Chapter Four: Defining a Secularist
Chapter Five: The Need to Confront Secularism
I ask Allah to make this effort of mine exclusively for His sake and to accept it from me. I humbly ask Him to reward me for it and to forgive me my mistakes. Truly, Allah is capable of all things.
CHAPTER ONE
A Contemporary Manifestation of Jâhiliyyah
The struggle between Islam and secularism is nothing new. It is just the age old struggle
between Islam and Jâhiliyyah1 in a new guise. Jâhiliyyah, the way of ignorance, comes in
many forms, has many names, and adopts various symbols, but it always has the same
common denominator - polytheism. The conflict between Islam and secularism is none
other than the conflict between Islam and polytheism. It is the struggle against the enemies of the Prophets that began in antiquity when Allah sent the very first Prophet to humanity and it will continue until Allah puts an end to the Earth and everything on it.
The Fervor of Jâhiliyyah
When Jâhiliyyah goes to war, it is goaded on by bigotry. It does not do so to elevate the name of Allah.
Allah says: “While the Unbelievers stirred up in their hearts fervor - the fervor of
ignorance, Allah sent down His tranquility upon his Messenger and the believers…”
[Sûrah al-Fath : 26]
The unbelievers call to bigotry and the ignorance of the times before Islam. The Prophet
(peace be upon him) expressly forbade us from hearkening to this call, saying: “Do you
call to the claims of Jâhiliyyah while I am among you. Leave such claims, for they are
truly rotten.”2
Besides the banner of Islam, every banner that is raised is a banner of Jâhiliyyah. Take for example, the banner of nationalism. Nationalism asks us to give our lives for the sake of the ground we walk on. We are told to die for our countries. This is not an Islamic call. It is not what the Prophet (peace be upon him) meant when he said: “Whoever fights so that the word of Allah is supreme has fought in the path of Allah.”3
In truth, the nation has become for many contemporary secularists an idol to be worshipped. One of them went so far as to say:
My country! It they fashioned for me out of it an idol, I would approach that idol and kiss it.
Another nationalist poet writes:
O my country! I meet you after despair
As if I am meeting along with you my youth.
1 The word Jâhiliyyah refers to the times of ignorance before Islam. 2 Sahîh al-Bukhârî (4905). Sahîh Muslim (2584).
3 Sahîh al-Bukhârî (123). Sahîh Muslim (1904).
I turn my face to you before I turn it to the Sacred House
When I make my declaration of faith and repent my sins.
Among the banners of Jâhiliyyah are the banners of racism and ethnic bigotry. There are
those who take Arabism as their singular and exclusive faith. All of these banners have
been trampled in the dust since the time that Allah sent His Prophet Muhammad and made him the criterion for all people. Those who accepted his call were black and white, Arab and non-Arab, noblemen and commoners. All of them proclaimed “There is no God but Allah.” They became a select brotherhood that knew no divisions among themselves. At the same time, they proclaimed their enmity towards people like Abû Jahl, Abû Lahab, and other members of the Quraysh nobility, in spite of those people being of the
highest social status and pedigree.
I ask Allah (SWT) to make this effort of mine exclusively for His sake and to accept it from me.
I humbly ask Him to reward me for it and to forgive me my mistakes. Truly, Allah (SWT) is
capable of all things