穆斯林意識的醒覺
著名記者 G.H.Janssen在他的Militant Islam ─ 書中開宗明義指出伊斯蘭的特質：
“Islam is not a religion and Muhammad is not the founder of Islam. This may seem a statement of extreme Islamic heresy. Yet this is not too far from what two fundamentalist Islamic scholars and reformers have to say about the basic tenets of their faith: ‘Islam is not a religion in the common, distorted meaning of the word, confining itself to the private life of man. It is a complete way of life, catering for all the fields of human existence. Islam provides guidance for all walks of life-individual and social, material and moral, economic and political, legal and cultural, national and international. These words are echoed by every writer, Muslim or non-Muslim, dealing with the most essential characteristic of this faith, a characteristic which it does not share with any of the other ‘higher religions'. Because of this it cannot be repeated too often that Islam is not merely a religion. It is total and unified way of life, both religious and secular, it is a total and unified way of life, both religious and secular, it is a set of beliefs and a way of worship; it is a vast and integrated system of law; it is culture and a civilization; it is an economic system and a way of doing business; it is a polity and a method of governance; it is a special sort of society and a way of running a family; it prescribes of inheritance and divorce, dress and etiquette, food and personal hygiene. It is a spiritual and human totality, this-wordly and other-worldly. Consequently, religion and politics are the two sides of a single coin is Islam….” 一位非穆斯林學者，對伊斯蘭的認識如此透徹，確實難得。 伊斯蘭本身雖然是一種信仰，但它本身也與社會生活的各個方面相聯，伊斯蘭不僅像其他宗教一樣確立人與神之間的關係，而且也確定人與入之間的關係。 伊斯蘭強調真主被崇拜之外，祂是宇宙的絕對統治者，人一類在各方面的生活，也應順從真主的意旨而行。真主的意旨是透過祂所啟示的經典及祂所選派的使者來傳達給人類知道。
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