The West - Enlightenment Or What?

[Rehmat]

Dr. Arnold Toynbee said: “Since the Renaissance and Reformation in Europe, over five centuries ago, the West has destroyed 16 civilizations out of 26. “


In other words, instead of ushering in peace, justice, solidarity and friendly co-operations, it produced massive wars, carpet bombing, weapons of mass destruction, and practiced double standards about democracy, individual freedom, and equality of races and genders in the eyes of law. To its long list of victims of invasions, Palestine, Chechnya, Iraq and Palestine are the latest additions.


The western intellectuals and most of its leaders know full well that the only source which can provide peace, stability, brotherhood, solidarity, and mutual understanding throughout the world is Islam. The other world religions – Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Christianity and Judaism have been fossilized by the western secular onslaught and is easily assimilated into the pagan and secular western culture – whereas Islam rejects assimilation outright.


The western intellectuals and politicians are aware that Islamic Shari’ah can still provide real answers to the present-day global problems because unlike secularism that limits the human life to this world, Islam is not exclusivist. Islam is inclusivist in the sense that it is the only universal religion that accepts all the revealed truth from the first man Adam to the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). Furthermore, Islam is the only universal religion that produced genuine multicultural, multi-ethnic, multi-national civilizations – such as, Muslim Spain, Mughal Hindustan, Muslim Palestine, etc., etc.

[Shereen]

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