Support Provided by Secular Civilization

Support Provided by Secular Civilization discovery of the hidden secrets of nature, thanks to the extraordinary efforts of Western thinkers and scientists, who, in the main, remained secular in their outlook. In the wake of these discoveries, Western civilization rose to great heights of technological sophistication and remained directed toward secular ends. As such, it could facilitate the performance of dawah work. As a result, for the first time in human history, the word of God could be effectively disseminated to the people of the world, a process referred to in the Hadith as ‘taking the word of God to all homes.’ No longer the communication of the message of God constrained by geographical impediments, as happened in the case of Uqbah ibn Nafi Tabii (d. 683 AD), who successfully performed dawah work traveling on horseback across Africa, only to find himself halted on the west coast by the Atlantic Ocean, which at that time no one had the means to cross. (Al-Kamil fi alTarikh, Ibn Athir, Vol. 3 p. 206) The new opportunities offered by Western Civilization were mainly of two kinds. One may be called the theoretical or ideological aspect. That is, the opening up of new opportunities in respect of secular ideology brought complete religious freedom into existence,