Islam and postmodernism

As it is a general sentiment these days among the modernist camp that Islam must be "reformed" properly to make it acceptable to the people in this age so it also necessary to address this issue of reformation as well in details. We all know that the idea of reformation manly originates in the modernistic camp under the influences that the Western "enlightenment" is no more compatible with Islam or Islam is incompatible with the western enlightenment. The western enlightenment is a broad term which encompasses all the social doctrines that became prevalent in the post modernism west. Such ideologies will primarily include democracy , the social doctrines related to the relation ship between men and women , the various economic theories and so on.

Why should one think of making Islam compatible with the Western enlightenment? The reason that the modernists give is obvious. The western enlightenment is prevalent , accepted and has taken a grip over the popular imagination therefor Islam must be brought into the boundaries of it so that it remains acceptable to the general public. The parts of Islam that stay out of the boundary must be chopped and trimmed. What remains outside includes Jihaad , Niqaab , ruling related to apostasy etc. What they don't understand is that it is impossible to think of a theoretically neutral world. It is impossible that one day the whole world will give up all the various theories prevalent and people will roam around with out any ideology with the flags of western enlightenment in their hands.

Marxism offered a resistance to imperialism , one of the tenets of western enlightenment but faded away after sometime. Chinese socialism is offering a resistance to the economical tenets of western enlightenment but lack the various equipment to rebuke it completely. Islam and the Muslim world is the only resistance left these days. It has all thew potential to ideological replace the western enlightenment whose core ingredients include materialism , relative morality , consumerism and imperialism. The decline of western enlightenment has already begun and i am sure that it shall fall to Islam as Allah has said in the Quran Huwalazi arsala rasoolahu bil huda Wa deen al Haq Leyuzheral Haq ala deeni kuli . It is Allah who has sent his messenger with the true Deen and truth so that he makes it prevalent over all the religions.

Instead of investing the potentials futilely in efforts to neutralize the ideological bases of Islam , , under the influences of supremacy of western enlightenment , we should work on methods to present Islam as an alternate to the western enlightenment. The west has wickedly ruled the world for long now. It is evident from the history that no man made doctrine survives for long. People get fed up , the internal inconsistencies break the ideologies and the social changes negatively effect them. The real beauty of Islam is that it has survived for so long and has presented an ideology to the world. It has established itself and its ideological bases are firmly rooted. Why surrender it to the west? Why come up with the modals of reformed Islam (which is not Islam) to make it reconcilable with the western enlightenment? The only reason that i can see is the lack of faith.