During the long destructive crusades the enemy failed to achieve her goals
after repeatedly facing humiliating defeats and hence it resorted to opening a
new front, Orientalism.
It requires long discussions and study debating the founders of the school of
Orientalism, its creation, theory, activists and activities that cannot be
discussed in this small piece. However one can quickly summarize that
orientalists as a group of western individuals who study eastern literature
(Islamic literature) with the aim of developing doubts and skepticism about
Islam.
Orientalists have written volumes upon volumes of books on the life of the
Prophet (SAW), Islamic history, Islamic governance as well as rules and
regulations of individual and communal, personal and government laws with the
aim of producing a wedge between Islam and Muslims. They have falsely and very
shamelessly attributed many sayings and deeds to our religion and predecessors
and based on these fabrications, they have passed judgments on our divine
religion.
Similarly this devious western group has infiltrated old and new alien jargon
into our Islamic literature which has proved very harmful for us. And it is
with great sadness that many Muslim authors and academia have also used these
terms in their writings due to lack of research.
Islamism, Islamists and Political Islam are a small example of terms conjured
by these orientalists and which are being frequently used nowadays. The word
ism means school or system, as in famous ideological schools such as
Communism, Marxism, Socialism, Capitalism, Liberalism and Humanism or literary
theory/schools such as Realism, Romanism etc etc
The above mentioned and other ideological and literary schools or theories are
the result of thoughts and estimations of societies. Contrarily, the sublime
religion of Islam is not the theoretical school of somebody nor the product of
weak estimations of varying literary and ideological isms rather it is a
divine religion, with the revelation of which all other divine religions
became null and void. The source of Islam is far higher and greater than any
weak human thought. This high, great and sublime source is Devine Revelation
which can never ever be compared to the product of human thought or so-called
isms.
Another machination of the orientalists is that they have left the minds
confused between Islamic Politics and Political Islam. Some people think the
both terms are synonymous with one another however the reality is that the
term Political Islam is a huge fallacy because politics is an important
segment within Islam rather than an exclusive model of Islam. They similarly
try to divide Islam into different portions such as Sufi Islam and Jihadi
Islam even though Islam rejects such dissection to the extent that rejecting a
single command equates to disbelief in the entire religion.
By spending such efforts into making these terms mainstream, they want to
damage the universality and perfection of Islam. And the biggest blow is that
they associate basic principles and key demands of Islam to certain groups and
individual for example they attribute Islamic Politics and Jihad with the
personal fancy or wants of particular individuals or groups.
Muslim writers, academics and politicians must decipher the enemy plots. They
must desist from using jargon conjured, used and taken advantage of by our
enemies
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