Genesis
of the modern secular state
The modern secular state emerged after Euro-Christian
civilization was mysteriously attacked from within and was subjected to ominous
and revolutionary change causing a civilization that was ostensibly based on
faith in Christianity and Judaism to be transformed into an irresistibly
powerful, essentially godless, amazingly deceptive and appallingly decadent
civilization. This was one of the most unique and momentous events ever to have
occurred in European history.
The godlessness of modern European civilization was plainly
apparent in its embrace of ‘materialism’ which was the logical culmination of
the adoption of a new ‘one-eyed’ epistemology that insisted that knowledge was
derived from only one source, i.e., external observation and experimentation.
The other ‘eye’, i.e., internal intuitive
spiritual insight, was rejected as a means through which knowledge could be
acquired.
The modern secular state emerged in consequence of the
application of that new European godlessness to political philosophy and
political theory. But while the secular state appeared previously in history, it
was only in the modern age that it became a universal phenomenon embracing all
of mankind in a new secular world order. And the modern age emerged in consequence of that European revolution
which embraced all of mankind in its godless secular embrace, and proceeded to
transform all of mankind into a single, global, godless, secular and decadent
world. Is there anything that explains it? Our claim is that only the Qur’an
explains it!
The godless European revolution was an even more mysterious
phenomenon since it was accompanied by a scientific and technological
revolution that empowered godless Europe with a ‘power’ that seemed invincible,
and gave it such ‘glamour’ that made
it irresistible. The steam engine, trains, motorcars, trucks, mechanized tanks for
warfare, ships powered by steam and oil, airplanes, etc., completely changed
the way the world travelled and waged war, changing the way people lived.
Electricity changed people’s lives. Telephones and telegraph made instantaneous
communication over long distances possible and this, in turn, changed the way
people lived. And a feminist revolution gave to woman the freedom to embrace
the functional role of men in society in defiance of the functional difference
established and ordained by Allah, Most High (Qur’an, al-Lail, 92:4). That was heralded as women’s
liberation! It resulted in the most momentous and ominous change of all in the
way people lived.
The new Europe directed a sustained attack on mankind by
appealing to base instincts of greed and lust. A sexual revolution promised to make sex – natural and unnatural – as
readily and freely available as sunshine. Marriage was increasingly considered
to be redundant and people could choose to live together without being married
and yet be considered to be leading respectable lives.
Homosexuality and lesbianism were defended as alternate sexuality and became so acceptable
in the popular consciousness that a homosexual or lesbian priest or Rabbi could
emerge out of the closet to claim respectability and continue to function as a priest
or Rabbi. Indeed, even the word ‘homosexuality’ was secularized in order to remove
the social repugnance attached to unnatural
sex. It was replaced with the word ‘gay’. An unsuspecting public accepted
the apparently innocent change of name.
A consumer revolution gave to mankind an insatiable appetite
for acquiring more and more of the new consumer goods that dazzle the eye.
The new godless Europe proceeded to use ‘power’ to conquer
the rest of the world and to colonize it, and then to use ‘glamour’ to seduce
all of mankind into imitating the godless decadent European way of life and new
consumer culture. The godless European revolution witnessed its political
turning point in the American, French
and Bolshevik revolutions in 1776, 1787-1800, and 1917. The economic
turning point was the emergence of the usurious economic system based on Riba,
and it was fully achieved through the Protestant revolution. And the cultural
turning point was the emergence of the feminist revolution with its struggle
for women’s liberation. But none of these revolutions would have been possible
without the accompanying scientific and technological revolutions.
to be continued....
