Assalamu 'Alaykum WarahmatulLahi

The world is like an educational institution in which religious and secular curricula are being implemented. The curriculum of the secular political system (or Department) is secularism while that of the Religious Political System (or Department) is the only divinely ordained religion, Islam. Secularism is said to be “a code of duty pertaining to this life, founded on considerations purely human, and intended mainly for those who find theology, indefinite or inadequate, unreliable and unbelievable.” (Glasner 1977:46).

Islam (or the religious curriculum) on the other hand, pertains to the code of conducts meant to regulate all affairs of individuals, families, communities and nations in order for mankind to attain the highest degree of spiritual nobility and divine pleasure as well as the political, economic, social, intellectual and moral standards.

There are four categories of leadership in the world. Three of them are of the Secular Political System while the fourth is the Islamic Political System.

The first category of leadership is that of a secular order implementing a secular curriculum in a secular political system. This leadership is the popular secular political system operated by non-Muslims who are as well secularists. By virtue of the implementation and popularity of the secular curriculum, secularists and the ignorant masses accord this form of secular leadership the foremost recognition.

The second category is that of secular leadership represented by Muslims who operate a secular curriculum in a secular political system. This is a typical case of Muslims who, not being conscious of Islam, do not see anything wrong in adopting, fostering, promoting and living in accordance with the secular political system.

The third category is the case of Muslims who operate partial Islamic curriculum in a secular political system. This is an example of Muslims who due to lack of the realisation of that secularism is both anti-Islam and inimical to human prosperity, agitate and seek to inject Islamic principles into governance under secular political dispensation.

The fourth category is represented by Muslim Scholars who operate Islamic curriculum in an Islam Political system.

From the above analogical categorisation, four different brands of governance have emerged. These are: Non-Muslim Secularists who implement secular policies in a secular political system; Muslim secularists who implement secular policies in a secular political system, Muslim secularists who are persuaded by Islamic values and therefore adopt a mix of secular and Islamic principles in governance under secular political system and Muslims who implement wholesale Islamic principles of governance in an Islamic political system or setting. The last one is the only divinely ordained and acceptable system of governance for mankind.

The term, Muslims refer to those who willingly submit to the divine will and are therefore not expected to adopt and promote another ways of life aside from Islam. Adoption and pursuit of any other ways of life aside from the divinely ordained one amounts to hypocrisy and because Allah disapproves of it, the outcome of such perverse and secular perspective to life includes displeasure of the divine being and a life of ignominy and misery which characterise the global secular systems the contemporary world.