Secularism : The Origin , Growth and Conseque

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

دانش آموختۀ حوزۀ علمیه

Abstract

Secularism consists in putting religion away from political , social , economical and scientific areas ; in other words , it means making social life of man thoroughly free from religious signs and purposes . Instrumental misusing of religion during middle ages , basing Christian theology upon the findings of experimental sciences , destructive durable sectarian wars in Christian world of the day as well as feeling too self-sufficiency as a result of strange progress of experimental sciences led to the withdrawal of religion from socio-political of man . The fact occurred in the western societies and only belongs to them .
   Another kind of secularism , however , threaten our own Islamic society ; the one being known as a consequence for three different modes of thought : ones of those who have restricted religious thought to their own limited mind and try to impose it on others in any probable way , of those viewing socio-political affairs to be harmful to divinity and holiness of religion and insisting , therefore , on separation of religion from socio-political matters , and of those too attracted by western manners of life and thought . This paper has argued for the comprehensiveness and dynamic nature of Islam and showed its full capacity for solving all socio-political problems .

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