DA’WAH AND INTELLECTUAL CHALLENGES OFPOSTMODERNISM

Abstract

It is the effect of postmodernism philosophy that interest of modern man is limited to his
own feeling, emotions and practical issues. For modern man, life is all about the issues and its
solutions and discussions of thought, ideas and ideologies are just unpractical theories and have
no role in shaping practical life and solving problems. To modern man principles, ideas, norms,
rules and regulations are past traditions, therefore some thinkers have called the present age the
"Age of Non-Ideology". Postmodernism philosophy is more dangerous and harmful than
modernity. In modernity, principle was compared to principle, arguments were compared to
arguments, while post-modern philosophy denies principles and arguments from the beginning.
The one who denies the existence of an argument or an ideology so it is a difficult task for a
person to persuade him to an ideology or a religion. The struggle for modernized man is based on
proving the universality and usefulness of Islam and Islamic system on rational and philosophical
grounds. However, the way to persuade a postmodernism man is to pay full attention to the
practical side of Islam instead of the theoretical side and to prove the strong and inseparable
connection of Islamic rules with the practical life of man, moreover, the disadvantages in
practical life for neglecting Islamic rules should also be explained. So it is the responsibility of
the leaders of the Ummah to present Islam as a practical system, rather than mere ideologies. It is
the most important need of the hour to compete these great contemporary intellectual challenges.