Secularism and Islam Are Incompatible

Secularism and Islam are Incompatible

You will never find any dearth of self-claimed Muslims that regard Islam and Secularism compatible with each other.

The Muslim living in America will explain to you earnestly how Prophet Muhammad (SAW) didn’t discriminate between Muslim and non-Muslim and that that is what secularism does precisely.

Let us define secularism then if we are to reach to a definite conclusion. It is a social system where a person’s religion or irreligion neither benefits nor harms him, where the laws of the state do not come from God or some divine entity but are arbitrarily decided by the people themselves, where morality itself is just the general perception of right and wrong, where right can become wrong and wrong can become right by a simple vote.

Now let us define Islam. Islam is the Deen of Allah which has been prescribed to all of mankind and the rules and laws of Allah and his Prophet, Muhammad (SAW) that have been sanctioned over us in the Quran.

Any person with the slightest knowledge of Islam would understand the absurdity of the claim that Islam can be compatible with secularism.

Do we not see that under secular society’s rules and laws are decided through the consensus of the population in view of feminism and equality but in Islam the laws regarding lawful and unlawful come from Allah.

Say, 'Have you regarded what God has sent down for you of [His] provision, whereupon you made some of it unlawful and [some] lawful?' Say, 'Did God give you the sanction [to do so], or do you fabricate a lie against God?' (10:59)

The protagonists of the secular state that secularism favors no religion or non-religion equally but not only does that not make secularism coherent with Islam but upon closer inspection we find that that argument itself isn’t true. The secular society bars religion from government and thus is essentially an atheist government.