DA’WAH AND INTELLECTUAL CHALLENGES OF POSTMODERNISM

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.