The Error of Political Islam

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION I have no illusions that, following such criticism, all Jamaat members will abandon the Jamaat’s ideas and adopt a new perspective. History has never witnessed such a thing, nor will it now. The Jamaat’s ideology has been around for a quarter of a century. Many have grown old with this ideology since accepting it in their youth, and they are now in old age. Once a person spends such a long time with an ideology, it becomes impossible to abandon it. They grow so accustomed to it that they cannot imagine any truth outside it. The Jamaat has now reached a stage where it functions more as a “tradition” than a “movement,” one that does not require evidence to uphold it. Often, even when a person is defeated in the field of logic, he continues along the path of tradition as if there were no greater truth. After years of sustained effort, it has secured a place in society and built a widespread network with which many people are associated in various ways. This also poses an obstacle, consciously or subconsciously, for many individuals when it comes to making a new decision. Here, I would like to give the example of communism. It is an undeniable fact that communism has been completely refuted in the field of logic. The critique against it has been so strong that it no longer stands