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Al-Hayat Al-Jadid: "From here and there – The Secular Turban"

By: Adli Sadek

I know Ayad Jamal Aldin, since hired by the Shiite Muslims, Dubai residents and its people, to become their outspoken young Imam. In the course of attempts to identify Shiites closely, in term of their thoughts and worship, I found Ayad present and I admired him. While I did not know that this young man would become the liberal pole and the turbaned democrat in Iraq after nearly a quarter century, he has the courage that qualifies him to raise his esteemed voice against the abhorrent sectarianism which has invented arguments and laws, approved by the Parliament, in order to become unique in the expression of itself, such as calling to what is named " de-Baathification " which is responded by Ayad the son of the ancient noble family, “ you are calling to root out all the people, without having the capability to import another people! ”

In religion, he is against the atrocities on behalf of jurisprudent rule, he showed pessimism of the blindly obedience of simple people to this ruler, without gaining any outcome but only giving empowerment to foreigners, while obedient think they are going to heaven. These people are fed by collaborated political forces seeking hollowness of the State from its national content.

Ayad the jurisprudent, who studied theology, philosophy and mysticism in Iran itself, realizes that the creators of ideological logic at all times and places, think they will win with allegations of god-fearing without behave, find out reasons of real power and credibility of their efforts, and see that they only open the gaps in the national entity, in order to open the way for the implementation of the foreign project, whether American or Iranian!

It doesn’t hurt Ayad Jamal Aldin to say that he is the founder of the secular turban trend. Even though the term of secularism was subject to wrong interpretation in the Islamic world, caused by the lack of Arabic language having a completely equivalent expression of Secularism. Secularism is not atheism or denial of religion, it is not a doctrine, and has no status of faith-related or not. It's a organizational political expression that relates with the nature of the state. This term originated, far behind the idea of separating religion from the state with the start of the Age of Enlightenment in Europe. It is ironic that the founders of the Islamic fundamentalist trend, were calling for the separation of church from the state in the late nineteenth century, and they realized the meaning of the secularism more than modern Islamists, and the base of their understanding of the issue is that the religion is inerrant and the state is not, so it is incorrect to match the state with religion. What is correct and necessary, is that the elements of the state must be guided by high-religious values, and that these values of faith must be represented by the employees of this state, each according to his religion!