Why liberalization of Islam tends to happen and how to avoid it and affirm orthodoxy within Islam.

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It can be difficult to keep up your Islamic identity and our beliefs unapologetically in the current world, especially in non muslim societies. We see many people almost having an identity crisis and find it troubling that somehow certain ingrained values of secularism...

don’t align well with the Qur’an. This problem arises when people fail to realize that the world should be judged in light of Islam, not the other way around. Much of this identity crisis comes from subconscious inferiority complex. Many people within the Islamic world...

feel as though Islamic values not aligning with the modern secular values that even go against Islam is somehow disproving Islam. This happens when one unknowingly accepts unislamic values that go against Islam and attempts to justify them and consider them...

to be somewhat morally superior. They treat the constantly changing, post modernists sayings as an objective moral truth as opposed to choosing Islam. Although we as Muslims can accept what is common ground and accept values that don't contradict ours, but...

The attempt to liberalize the religion is far more harmful, as it adopts the idea that the liberal/secular values needs to somehow be in line with Islam.

One of the ways to solve this issue is to revaluate our moral anchor. The easy way to fix this, is to go back to the...

basics. The steps we need to take to reaffirm our faith is to go back to the original basics of Islam, and learn about Allah SWT. Learn his attributes, learn that he is sovereign over everything. The world should be judged according to what he reveals, not according to what...

we arbitrarily come up with. When we affirm and understand the concept of who we belong to (we belong to God SWT and so does everything is), the rest shall become easy. Once we do this, and try our best to keep up basic practices (even if it isn’t perfect), we can continue to...

learn our religion and clear up doubts about our religion slowly. Remember, it isn’t a quick process. But it is something that one can do by enough research, books and through scholars. It is a fact that the most common arguments against Islam have been addressed multiple ...

times by many people of knowledge. We also need to look into the history of Islam. Starting with the Prophet PBUH himself, all the way up to the glory that was granted to Muslims through Islam. The reason some of us tend to appeal to western liberal ideas and try to...

conform to them is because we feel that due to today's issues going on in the Muslim world is because of not adopting secular ideas. So it is important to read our history, and look at the positives we have achieved. We have a rich history based on Islam and as long as...

previous generation of Muslims stayed upon orthodoxy and upheld Islam, they were powerful. Whenever they adopted foreign values, the collapsed. Our history is proof that adopting non Islamic values leads to collapse of civilizations and our current situation speaks for itself.

When we read into Islamic history, we realize that the reason for the lack of growth in Muslim countries is not that Muslim countries aren't adopting non Islamic secular ideas. It is because they aren't adopting Islamic values the way they should be.

We should also not get overwhelmed with arguments. The Islamic tradition has a rich tradition and most of all we have arguments. We have our rationale reasons to justify our beliefs. The steps we Muslims especially in the west should take is to gain knowledge, both worldly...

knowledge as well as ground ourselves within Islamic tradition. We shouldn’t blindly buy into the arguments of opponents of Islam at face value, rather ground ourselves enough to respond to them. It is an obligation on every Muslim to make an effort to learn their religion...

and protect it’s honor. Remember, it isn’t an obligation on everything Muslim to go out and debate. However, we must ground ourselves enough to be content with our faith and ask questions and seek knowledge through trustworthy knowledgeable scholars. The only time we will be...

well grounded in our faith is if we will be confident in our faith enough to know it is the truth.