Secularized Muslim

Secular, which can be described briefly as a worldview that emphasizes the meaning of life on a particular time or period in the world viewed as a historical process, has influenced many Muslims, in their way of wearing, judging, believing, and thinking. And because of their influential positions in Muslim society, as scholars and intellectuals, they become consciously or not disseminators of unnecessary confusion and ignorance spread by Western civilisation.



The process of making secular is called secularization. This contains three things: disenchantment of nature, desacralisation of politics, and the deconsecration of values. By first, secularist mean the freeing of nature from its religious overtones, separating it from God, so that man may no longer regard nature as a divine entity, which allows him to act freely upon nature according to his needs and plans. By the last they mean the rendering relative all cultural creations and every value system including religion and worldviews having ultimate and final significance, so that the future is open to change, and man is free to create and immerse himself in the revolutionary process.
With secularized Muslim, I refer to those who has been influenced by Western viewpoints and civilisation, who choose to deny Islam’s values and behave as if they have nothing with Islam in spite of their identity of Muslim. However it is still debatable to define precisely who they are and their position among Muslims.

Source: Al-Attas’s books
Written in my first year in campus