Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

Secularism, Nationalism, and Socialism

This book is corrected and edited by Al-Hassanain (p) Institue for Islamic Heritage and Thought

• About this book
• Foreword
• Chapter one: Our stance on secularism
• The confusion in the Islamic reference
• The confusion of judging Islam by what had occurred in Christianity
• Principles of the Secularism of Islam
• First: the nature of Islam
• Second: the absence of religious institution
• Third: Islam acknowledges liberty of thought
• Fourth: Islam acknowledges the principle of calling for doing the right deeds and forbidding wrong ones
• Fifth: Islam acknowledges pluralism
• Six: the principle of the original innocence
• Lastly: Islam is a religion and a nation, not a religion and a state
• The scope of secularism in Islam
• Three aspects to be taken into consideration
• A) The scope of the purity in European secularism
• B) The specific nature of Egypt and the Arab world
• C) The results of applying secularism in the Western society
• Chapter Two: Our stance on Nationalism
• The origin of nationalism
• Nationalism without Islam
• A suspicious start and a disgraceful ending
• The stance of Islamic rule on minorities
• Chapter Three: Our stance on socialism
• Elements of difference
• First: denial of divinity and creation
• Second: refusal to suppress the character of the individual
• Third: rejection of Leninist socialist state
• Elements of agreement
• Epilogue: the alternative
• Notes