To use the term "ideology" as a
concept, to cover religion as a whole and "Islam in particular,
is no more than, rhetorically speaking, a metaphorical
description but it is necessary to bear in mind that religion on
the ground of reality is greater and bigger in scope and
dimension than ideology and idealization though they both
identify the entire coordination of general thoughts, beliefs and
instructions which imply a specified conduct.
To explain the objectives and
orientations of Islam in terms of modern ideology is only meant
to give us an interpretation of the moral principles whose
presence in the world of reality constitutes a number- not to be
sneezed at, of justifications for the conduct of those who
embrace Islam, surrounding themselves with a halo of undue
reverence, legality and solemnity as being included within its
standing system in addition to his constant moves and steady
pursuit of every age and country and his ever ready response to
any changing conditions of time and place as giving dynamic
movements to his constant principles and permits the usage
of such description.
Islamic ideology lies in what it
establishes of a submissive formula with the existing Creator
whose existence is a must and who ultimately is Allah, in
addition to establishing a faith-based formula which necessitates
Moslem believers to have faith in all the Prophets of Allah, His
Messengers and His Books together with confirming the fact that
Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H.) is the only finalizer of all prophets
and that his message too is the finalizer of all messages and
that the holy Quran is but the heavenly Book which no falsehood
can come to it from any side at all.
Last of all, Islam assures that
all of Allah's Creation is destined to return, as their last
destination, to Him, the Creator of the whole universe and
compose him out of vacuum, resurrect him on Doomsday the day of
the heavenly justice for reckoning represented in the
Hereafter.
And from between such ideology
Islam has certain view - points on several other issues related
to human creatures' lives which are considered as prerequisites
like slavery is to be dedicated to Allah alone without
associating someone else with Him. Slavery to Allah alone is the
peak of freedom to a human being as it releases him from the
slavery of wealth, wanton lust, love of supremacy, love of
prestige and the like.
In brief, the more the slave of
Allah shows bondage to his only Lord, the greater the scope of
his release from all sensual desires of this temporal life will
be. Piety to Allah alone will be the only characteristic which
distinguishes one from the other and within its oven liquidates
trends of ethnics, racism, nationalism, illegal sexual
approaches, debaucheries and other defects. Piety alone can serve
man as the proper yardstick with which man's deeds in life can be
measured.
So, in order to accomplish these
ideologies, Islam reasserts a multitude of principles and
considers them as big titles and headings from which lots of
other small items can emerge so that all in all will constitute a
great Islamic formula and out of all that see the
following:
- The sociological formula
through which a perfect environment of social solidarity can be
established.
- The moral formula through which
a program of self-rehabilitation and suppressing its wanton
desires can be established too at the expense of
others.
- The legal formula through which
sound environments can be established to grant prevention of
conflict of interests prevent people from all kinds of greed and
avarice.
Sun -
22 Jamadilawal 1446H -
