Name: Secularizing the Muslim Mind
Uploaded: 2023-07-17T13:00:00.000Z
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 The secular paradigm forces the Muslim to adopt its own language, saying that something  is morally wrong from the Islamic lens is morally wrong under a secular paradigm, right?  It becomes really tricky territory to kind of navigate. We need to ask ourselves, what  kind of impact is this having on the way that you and I as Muslims conceptualize our faith?  As-salamu alaykum and welcome back to Dogma Disrupted.  Today we're having another discussion on secularism.  Whereas before we talked about the history of secularism  and debunked some of the myths about secularism,  today we're going to be looking at where it leaves us as Muslims today in the West.  What are the pressures that we feel under the secular order?  How does it affect the way that we relate to our faith and to Islam?  And to break down this discussion,  we've brought a very special guest with us today,  Sister Dania Hanini, welcome very much to the program.  Thank you for having me, it's a pleasure to be here.  So we talked, just to give a very, very brief summary,  you know, secularism sort of positions or postures as this clean separation  between church and state, between religion and society,  when in reality it's anything but, it's not a separation,  it's rather a force that produces a new type of religion  and a new type of society and has a bunch of different sort of values  and preferences that come along with it.  One of the sort of avenues of power that it exercises on all religions  is a power that privatizes religion.  So I was hoping that you could start us off by talking about  what does the privatization of faith look like in general and for us as Muslims?  Yeah, BarakAllahu fiqh.  Bismillah, alhamdulillah, wa salatu wa salamu ala Rasulullah wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajmain.  I think this is a wonderful place to start our conversation  because I think, Najla, as the conversation rolls out,  much of the blowback that we see in the way that we as Muslims  conceptualize and practice our deen under a secular paradigm  is because of this, one of the reasons,  because of the stipulation of the privatization of faith itself.  So what does privatization kind of rest on?  There are a couple of assumptions.  The first being that under secularism,  the reality of stripping religion from the public sphere  requires that religion itself is to be defined  and or reconfigured rather by that new kind of stipulation.  And what I mean by this is in order for religion to be separated from the public domain,  it needs an active kind of,  it needs to go through that active process of being redefined  to fit neatly in that public sphere.  And in this case, it's at the state's dispense  as to what is acceptable religious practice  and what is unacceptable religious practice.  So in the case of you and I as Muslims,  that should kind of set off some red flags, right?  Does this or are the implications now that Islam is only to be privatized,  only to be something very specific and unique to the individual experience?  And in the process of doing so,  is Islam stripped of its universal vision and application?  And so generally speaking, when we talk about privatizing faith,  what that necessitates is that, you know,  all faiths kind of hold the same epistemic weight, right?  And in the process of doing so,  you have feeling Trump dogma and Trump principle,  because again, it is something that's supposed to be deeply personal to the individual.  So what you're saying is that in the secular order,  there's no evaluative framework or evaluative language  to arbitrate between different sort of rival moralities.  If a Christian is saying,  then we should turn the other cheek in this situation,  and a Muslim is saying, no, rather it's tooth for a tooth,  then we don't have any language to even come to a conclusion  as to which would be a more appropriate  or which would be a better course of action.  Is that fair?  Absolutely, absolutely.  What the secular model does is that it robs this idea of truth with a capital T, right?  And that's kind of the trademark of like a postmodern world that we live in, right?  And how this kind of or what this does is it actually just creates a buffet of choices  for the individual consumer to choose and select what their kind of,  what their flavor of spirituality slash religion looks like in today's context.  And I think what's even more so of a blowback,  you know, kind of along the same thread is in our communities,  we see this impacting just the way in which we, you know, we talk about Islam, right?  And what I mean by this is sometimes you'll find it normalized that Islam to me is, right?  We can have certain political figures in power saying, you know,  my Allah is a she and it's under a secular paradigm.  It's totally valid.  And so what this does is it offers a privatization of faith,  offers this process of personalization of religion where you really do bypass the principles,  the Islamic Aqidah in many ways, and…

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