"Secularism as a theme for social life".
By Khalil Poya
بیایید با چشمان شسته ، پدیده ها را در زندگی به تصویر کشیم،
و بی تردید، به فضای خلق شده در شکست ثانیه ها نگریم،
باری، برای پویای اندیشه ها هماهنگ شویم،
و از روح لطیف به آرایش و پیرایش مفاهیم پردازیم،
و شدت را در مثبت بودن تجربه کنیم.
Prior to go forward let me start with defining the life, because
Life is a phenomenon itself
Life is to explore -research
Life is to say in order to listen
Life means a new night, a new day and a new ideology
Yes, Life is fine----looking
Life is an everlasting old furnace
If you ignite it, visible is the dance of its flames from far away
Or else, it is silent and silence is a sin.
To portray a new theme for human life on earth, the word secularism had announced its existence in our social life. Secularism was not needed in the contact of us with our God, but it is needed in the contact of us with our social environment. Earlier to go forward, I would like to describe the term secularism.
The term Secularism drives from the Latin word Saecularis and means pertaining to the real world and Time where we live and is based on realism. Secularism does not oppose the religious contributions in society, but support the isolation of religion from politics. The religions emphasize on mortality of whole cosmos and they observe the eternity only for religion. Secularism has an approach to materialism in which they have an experienced proof for the "Law of conservation of mater and energy" through science, so that secularism with describing the various aspects of social life, wants the human to decorate the life. Secularism talks about the role of human and his wisdom in recognizing the phenomena and social environment through fully freedom.
In other words, Secularism is not a governing system, but this is an ideology, through which we fashion our behavior, characteristics, views or logic of dealing with social environment and domination.
Some times, if you go to the depth of real Islam, apart from misusing the religion for personal political targets, you will fill, Islam itself as a secular religion, but who can be the announcer of facts and realities, for example, there in Iran, some people tried to introduce the real Islam, but could not succeed, because that was against the status & position of ولايت فقيه)) and their monopolized domination would be jeopardized.
Now the elements like: Osama Ben Laden, Mullah Omar and their fans want to reestablish the pure and extremist Islamic Emirate which can be very opposite to today's socio-structure of every community. According to me, non acceptable, despite being Muslim and they can not challenge the time.
For having a vivid illustration on the topic, I tried to research the secularism tendency of great poets like Mowlawe and Ferdowse, who each of them had their proper aspects of philosophy and spirituality, through their verses and poems. It must be cited here that other poets like: Hafiz, Khayam, Sanaei Ghaznawi, had also secularism tendency.
From centuries ago up to now, in civilization territory of us, plenty of intellectuals did their research about secularism, and found this ideology very sympathetic for the independence of thoughts and statements; this is how the talents and abilities can find a chance to run across a race course, whereas, in religious government, the religion will limit the talents and abilities from exploration, which is snatching of a right. Here I can say that secularism is a product of humanism, because of which Human Rights Commission was established in 1948.
It is obvious that the messages, indications, remarks, prose and poems of those great cultural men had given, various identification to their personalities, but meanwhile elevated them to summit of knowledge and civilization in such away that even centuries after, they are still soaring on their positions. Some says, how classic, but some one says, how neo modern knowledge and vast outlook, virtue, liberality, opposing the fundamentalism and radicalism, disagreeing the dictatorship governing and favoring realities are the common guidelines of them which assigned me to analyze the social affairs of our era with the help of those golden sources.
It is necessary to mention here that sympathy of people about those poets, are different according to each person's ideology. Some people may verify them only as poets, sophists or literate personalities, such as they don't have the tendency to interfere in social or political issues and they will analyze their poems and remarks from spiritual angle and also try to gain their targeted ideas, but some people will not limit them in the circle of literature and instead they verify those thoughts, slogans for awareness and they will consider the usages of those sources in social affairs as a cultural advantages for our eastern cultural society, thus we can claim that we eastern, have a very rich culture but those ideologies remained unidentified and death from centuries ago.
Mowlawe says in his Masnawe:
"هركسى از ظن خود شد يارمن وز درون من نجست اسرار من
سر من از ناله من دور نيست ليك چشم و گوش را این نور نیست"
Here he talks about the term secularism and usage of wisdom in identification. Let's extract this concept from Ferdowse's saying:
"خرد گر سخن برگزیند همی همان را گزیند که بیند همی"
Human is smart and powerful, Human has revolutions in his history, Human wants to drive towards the beautiful destiny for exploring the identification, luck and happiness and he wants to complete his mission, but the obstacles in life do change their wishes and hopes into ashes and this is how that human with the help of his wisdom will put his efforts together and will try till the lilt of music ends in order to cope well with the consequences in life. And this is wisdom which helps human to be successful so Secularism is also a return towards wisdom through which we analyze various issues in our society.
Including that Secularism talks about isolation of religion from politics not from state where people live, better to say that secularism is not against the personal religious beliefs of people, They believe that; this is how the wisdom can be more functional in an open atmosphere where religious obstacles will not dominate.
Many people feel that Islam is quite incompatible with secularism, but as for as I try to deal with the issue is quite on contrary.
In Islamic views the religion Islam had been completed by Muhammad and every alterations or updating is counted as a sin, because Islam of Muhammad is a complete code of life, they think that the human reached at the highest values and this is the last stage of human's improvement, but some thing that I believe is thoroughly inverse.
According to my knowledge, Islam or even generally religion can never be stated as a final code of life, because human has not reached at complete civilization and religion is simultaneous with the life of human and civilization. The doctrine of Muslims that Islam is a complete code of life is very old and this is a saying of Prophet Muhammad's era, from that time, obviously we are now ahead, centuries and decades so that the religion of centuries ago may not answer today's ambiguities and inventions unless it's improved in frame of time.
The discussion: Isolation of religion and government is a lawful discussion. An Islamic government says that the right of domination is personalized only to those who are spiritual leaders or clergy men, better to say ولايت فقيه)) which is opposite to justice and realities. So for, I am very sure about my saying, because ولايت فقيه)) can not perform as a good finance, defense, Interior, ministers or generally as a good political leader, because these are not our devotional affairs, and now every field is very vast that all those need a specialist of that work not a clergy man.
Including that, in one country, domination of one religion is possible, not all the religions so that the dominating religion will face a rigid anger of other religion which finally can be set to conflicts, as well as, here the rights of other citizens are snatched, rights of those who are the products of Universities, who are called intellectuals.
At conclusion, I beg to state that let's not make a dictator government by paralleling the government with religion and let's let democracy to be imposed through frame of moderate secularism and liberality.
And I oppose, rigid and extremism, but favor reformism and constructivism in every ideology or belief at all.
With thanks.
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2007/3/22 و ساعت
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