wajiha’s Reviews > The Principles of State and Government in Islam > Status Update

During the period of their political decay the Muslims have lost a good deal of their cultural self confidence as well, and many of them find it difficult today to avoid thinking in Western terms of "'state" and "nation" and to think in Islamic terms instead. They blindly follow Western patterns of thought in the naive belief that everything which comes from the
West must be more "up-to-date" than anything which they

its misleading to apply non Islamic terms to Islamic concepts & institutions. The ideology of Islam has a social orientation peculiar to itself different in many respects from that of the modern West & can be successfully interpreted only within its own context and own terminology. Any departure from this principle invariably tends to obscure the attitude of Islamic Law toward many of the burning issues of our time.

Modern Western mentality does not take kindly to
endeavours aimed at the establishment of religion as the dominant factor in a community's or a people's life; and since Western civilization, based on superior technology and scientific development, undoubtedly dominates the world today in both its "Capitalist" and "Marxist" manifestations,