Values of Islam as Religion: Challenges to Modernism for Present and Future

Cholem Ullah

doi:10.7176/jpcr/51-04

Abstract

This article attempts to find out the challenges of Islam dealing modernism from the standpoint of religious faith and values. Actually, the concept of modernism and incredible growth of materialism symbolize the faith and religion merely unscientific inculcating such mysterious and uncertain matters. Islam’s relationship as religion with the modernism, though it goes far into antiquity, has been overburdened with rivalries and marred by conflicts. But, certainly Islamic faith and other traditions are governed in the belief of oneness in God with being His all omnipotent and absolute powers that promulgate denoting challenges in the modern life of the world, particularly in the climax of modern scientific developments concerted by western world. The article also shed lights on the comprehensive analysis regarded the necessity of Islam with a view to reconstructing modernism as well as glorifying Islamic faith bearing out as only universal religious ideology in the world forever rather modernism or more than that. DOI: 10.7176/JPCR/51-04 Publication date: January 31 st 2021

Highlights

Many live in an era marked by an unparalleled advance of science. At the same time, man remains in a theological or religious crisis to preserve the social and cultural traditions of his current societies
Today, many live in an era marked by an unparalleled advance of science
The real fact is that the enormous advance of modern science on a scale hitherto and the emergence of modern materialistic are causing serious questioning of religious values and practices

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Introduction

Many live in an era marked by an unparalleled advance of science. At the same time, man remains in a theological or religious crisis to preserve the social and cultural traditions of his current societies. In Islam, the nucleus or concentration of knowledge of religious consciousness or Spiritual Truth is referred to as al-fitrah (30:30) in alQur'an, that is, a primordial existence in man that represents his unique ability to accept God as his Lord.

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