Merits
of the modern secular state
The secular state could not have won acceptance amongst a
Euro-Christian and Euro-Jewish people, or amongst Muslims, had it not
camouflaged its Kufr and Shirk with certain obvious merits. The
modern secular state emerged in Europe in response to a dominant and oppressive
Euro-Christian theocracy, and in order to challenge the ‘temporal’ power of the Euro-Christian Church. It challenged the
Church when it proclaimed a fresh and exciting new gospel of complete and
unfettered intellectual and religious freedom and human rights for all, and
religious tolerance of all. It also established the political conditions that
preserved peaceful coexistence amongst different religions within the same
territory. It thus put an end to all the bloody religious warfare that had
plagued Europe for so many centuries.
It also skillfully bribed its way into the bellies and the
hearts of mankind through its inventive creativity. It discovered or produced
most of that which has been joyfully embraced by mankind, regardless of
religious beliefs, as an indispensable necessity of modern life. Whenever
anyone embraced modernity with all its wondrous inventions one also embraced
the secular state and the secular way of life. That was no mean achievement!
Reality
of the modern secular state
But these obvious merits of the secular state did not change
that basic foundation of Kufr and Shirk. Indeed the modern
secular state slowly began to reveal its real hidden agenda of rivalry when it
began to wage a relentless war on the religious way of life Indeed religion
slowly became a receding force in the new essentially godless secular world.
The democracy of the modern secular
state turned out to be a sugarcoated pill of poison. The ‘political’ democracy
worked in such a way as to sustain a usurious system of economic oppression and
exploitation of the masses based on Riba. Economic oppression was
oft-times supplemented by racial and ethnic oppression. The impoverished masses
could never wrest real political power from the rich predatory elite, and hence
could never have the power with which to end economic oppression. The new
gospel of the modern secular society was that the rich shall inherit the earth. And that is
precisely what has happened.
The new Europe proceeded to use its invincible military
power and awesome powers of deception to dominate and brainwash non-European
humanity. The new godless political philosophy with its godless conception of a
sovereign state, exploitative economic system, and corruptive culture,
eventually embraced all the rest of the world. That was no mean achievement!
Western colonial rule was now imposed upon the rest of
mankind, including the Muslims, and through this means the new godless
political system, based on Kufr and Shirk, was deceptively and
subtly introduced. Thus the ominous prophecy of Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu
‘alaihi wa sallam) was fulfilled! He prophesied that his community (of
Muslims) would imitate and follow Jews and Christians to such an extent that
even if they were to go down into a lizard’s hole, his community would do the
same!
The result was that the world of Jews, Christians and
Muslims entered into a collective trial of all trials (fitnah) and
failed miserably in obeying the command of the God of Abraham, Most High, when
He ordered:
“Follow what has been sent down unto you by your Lord-God, and
follow no Master other than Him. How seldom do you keep this in mind!”
(Qur’an, al-‘Araf, 7:3)
The new modern secular state devised a system of electoral
politics for constituting Parliament and Government, and sometimes for electing
Judges. Citizens of the secular state, regardless of their religious beliefs,
voted in democratic elections. They were obliged to submit to its authority and
be obedient to it. If the elections were to produce a government dominated by
idol-worshipping Hindus who were
openly hostile to those who worshipped the God of Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salam),
or a government which declared to be Halal (permissible) everything
which Allah Most High had declared to be Haram, then the principle of
democratic elections required that Jews, Christians, Muslims etc., who were
citizens of that secular state, recognize that government as their lawful
government, submit to its authority, and be obedient to it.
There is nothing in the revealed scriptures (Torah, Gospel, Qur’an)
or the Sunnah (example or way of life) of the Prophets that can be used
to justify Jews, Christians, Muslims, etc., participating in such elections in
which they freely vote for such a government as lawful to govern over them. On
the contrary there is very clear condemnation of such conduct!
to be continued....
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