1. ROLE AND NEED FOR DEEN (MAZHAB KI ZAROORAT)By
Muhammad Ali Khan

2. Question about need for religion
Define Religion, also describing its necessity, importance and kinds of distinguishing between Revealed and Non Revealed religions. (2002)
Despite the scientific and technological advancement the present society is facing moral decline and mental anarchy. In these circumstances elucidate the importance and effectiveness of Religion. (2007)
Differentiate between the Din and Religion. State the important points of Co-Existence among Islam and world religions in the present scenario. (2010)
Describe the necessity and importance of religion for man and its effects on human life. (2012)

3. Important themes
Define Religion, its necessity, Importance effectiveness of Religion
Its effects on human life
Its kinds of distinguishing between Revealed and Non Revealed religions
Despite the scientific and technological advancement the present society is facing moral decline and mental anarchy ,
Differentiate between the Din and Religion
State the important points of Co-Existence among Islam and world religions

4. Concept-Dictionary Meaning
Zahab: Go, pass by, walk Mazhab: Method, belief or faith , manner

5. Concept
Religion as a “binding together” (Latin, religio, from the verb religare = “to bind together”
Religion is a relationship between the religious devotee and the gods, God) a relationship that binds the two together to :-
Who share the same or similar religious attitudes
Bound with the object of its devotion

6. Spirits : Demons, Ancestors, Ghosts
Religion is all about rituals and Faiths
Gods
Allah
Shiva
Budhh
Zeus
Aherman
Yazdan
Experiences
Love/Ecstasy
Nothingness
Hell/Heaven
Sacrifice
Beliefs
Death
Immortality
Atonement
Fate
Prayer
Practices (rituals)
Prayers
Fasting
Alms
Youga
Spirits : Demons, Ancestors, Ghosts

7. Attempts at a Definition
Emile Durkheim
“A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things”
Max Weber
Refused to attempt a definition of religion. [Smart Man?]

8. Concept Spirituality- Emotion Ethics8
Spirituality-
EB Taylor ( Social)
Emotion Ethics
Mathew Arnold (Literature)
Emotional Appeal to accept Almighty
Freud (Psychology)
Only Rituals ?
Humanity

9. Components of Deen
“Deen “ Accepting the absolute sovereignty (of Allah)
“Deen” means absolute submission (of man to the absolute sovereign
“Deen” indicate reward and accountability
“Deen” expresses a way of life or a code of conduct

10. DEEN Lots of Ins and Outs and What-Have-Yours
Deen is neither a single phenomenon, nor a “thing” rather, it is a divine and dynamic collection of institutions, practices, beliefs and social order
What's our Religion/Deen ?

11. Difference b/w Deen and Mazhab11
Concept
Frame of Reference (Individual and Collective)
Nature (Right of Allah and Rights of MAn
Canvas (Broader or Narrow)
In religious connotation
Al-Kafiroon, (Ebbadah)
Ale-Imran 19/IndAllah Islam, ideology of Life)
Al-Maida 3/Akmaltukum-Code of Life

12. It is proved by the Holy Qur’an and Ahadees.
The Deen in the sight of Allah (SWT) is only Islaam."The Deen before Allah (accepted by Allah) is Islam“(Aal-Imran 3:19)
Deen has been approved of and favoured by Alla "Today, I have completed your Deen, and have completed my bliss upon you and accepted for you Islam as a Deen.“ (Al-Mai’da 5:3)
Deen is complete, "Today, I have completed your Deen..” (Al-Mai’da 5:3)
Deen is Pure “Unquestionably, for Allah is the pure religion. (Az-Zumar 39:3)
Not been used in the Holy Qur’an or Ahadees in this context.
There is no such proof in Mazhab rather Mazhab is Sectarianism.
There is no scope or rather an instance of Sectarianism or Mazaahib in Islaam. And is self made
Mazaahib are incomplete.
Hence, the whole way of life in Mazaahib is self-made law which is against Islaam.
Mazaahib are not pure;
indeed they are adulterated and have the combination of Statements, Proclamations, advices and suggestions which are self-made and are contradictory to Islamic concepts

13. Only Deen will be accepted
Deen has been chosen by Allah . “Indeed Allah has chosen for you this Deen…” (l-Baqara 2:132
Only Deen will be accepted
And whoever desires other than Islam as religion - never will it be accepted from him, and he, in the Hereafter, will be among the losers. (Aal-Imran 3:85)
The purpose of Jihad in Deen is to establish the Deen of Allah completely.
“And fight them until there is no fitnah and [until] the religion, all of it, is for Allah. And if they cease - then indeed, Allah is Seeing of what they do.” (Al-Anfal 8:39)
Mazaahib are Self-made and are made with human-intervention.
Since Mazaahib are self-made and against Islam undoubtedly it will not be accepted.
The purpose of Jihad (which cannot be called as Jihad, anyways) in Mazaahib is to continue the sect based on some Personality, Individuality, Community or Region.

14. Two Theories of Evolution of Religion/Deen14
Islamic Point of View
7 Stages _Evolution of Religion
Atheism
Worshiping the Nature
Fear and Greed
Totoism
Worshiping the Elders (Past)
Idolatry
Monotheism
In Future

15. Need of Religion/Deen Pascal Boyer’s Religion Explained (2001)
Religion Provides Explanations
People created religion to explain puzzling natural phenomena
Religion explains puzzling experiences: dreams, forethought, etc
Religion explains the origins of things

19. Surat Al-'Aĥzāb (The Combined Forces) - سورة الأحزاب

21. Religion provides comfort
Need of Religion/Deen
Religion provides comfort
Religious explanations make mortality less unbearable
Religion allays anxiety and makes for a comfortable world
Religion explains why there is evil and sufferings

22. Need of Religion/Deen Religion provides Social Order
Religion holds society together
Religion perpetuates a particular social order
Religion supports morality

23. Cont… Religion is a Cognitive Approach
People are superstitious; they will believe anything
Religious concepts are irrefutable and Refutation is more difficult than belief

24. Religion and Law As Source of Law
No agreed upon source of law, (Fuller)
The law in quest for itself, No eternal law, (Kohler)
Human nature is the best source of law (Jhon Auston)
Islam being religion of nature is the best source of law
What are the Scale of Values or what are ideal values ?
If we secularize jurisprudence , where can we find an agreed basis ? (George Paton)
The solution is divine law

25. Encounter with Ideological/ Spiritual Vacuum
Man cannot live in an ideological vacuum for long
Man does not has sound beliefs
A superstitious and even destructive ideas may find way into his spiritual emptiness
Man's tendency towards idolatry, man worship diverse superstitions
All this originates from spiritual & ideological vacuum
It is religion which can fill the ideological vacuum

26. Need of Religion 26
All civilizations have their Religions, Great civilizations are not died, they attempt suicide
Religion and Science
Guidance to Wisdom
Religion as Change Agent for Natural, Spiritual, social needs

27. Cont… Universal Peace v/s Materialistic Development27
Universal Peace v/s Materialistic Development
(survival of the fittest is questioned)
Life after Death– Possibility only in religion
Accountability here and in life after death
Religion for Social Correction , Reformist movements
Religion as Panacea

28. Quotes ; for need of Deen /Religion28
August Comte
Theological (Religion)
Metaphysical ( Philosophy and Psychology)
Positive Stage (Science)
Napoleon says “It has kept the poor murdering the rich”
Supernatural hope in dooms hopes (Imam Jaffar RA)
Heaven and utopia are buckets in a well if one goes up other goes down (Will Durend)
Religion Rich in Miracle system and myths is needed

29. World is Religious today, even !
“Worldwide, more than eight-in-ten people identify with a religious group,” says a new comprehensive demographic study of more than 230 countries and territories (Pew Research Center’s Forum)
“There are 5.8 billion religiously affiliated adults and children around the globe, representing 84 percent of the 2010 world population of 6.9 billion,” the analysis states.

30. Cont… 2.2 billion Christians (32 percent)
1.6 billion Muslims (23 percent)
1 billion Hindus (15 percent)
500 million Buddhists (7 percent)
There are 14 million Jews
58 million people-slightly less than 1 percent of the global population belong to other religions

31. Cont… Christians Muslims Hinduism
Vatican City 100% Christians, USA Majority of the Christians 230 Mi, More Jews in USA (66 Lac than Israel 59 Lac)
Muslims
Mauritania 99.9%, Maldives 99.4%,Yemen 99.1,S omalia & Afghanistan 99% 
220 M in Indonesia, 177 Mi in India, KSA 26 M
Hinduism
81 % Population of Nipal is Hindu, 957 M in India
Majority of Jainism-5M, Bahai-2M,Sikhs-28M are also in India

32. Agnostics and Atheists
 Japan (76%)
 Sweden (65.5%)
Denmark (61.5%)
 Hong Kong 57%
 France (53.5%)
 Norway (51.5%)

33. Role of Religion 33
Points described in need for religion are also the role of religion as:
Example
To define good and bad we need religion and it is role of a religion to define good and bad.

34. Impact of Deen or Religion
Relationship between God and Man
They consider that the laws of the worldly life should be on logic and reason
Other religions bifurcate life into spiritual and material realms but Islam

35. Explanation of life
Religion leads man of an inner , most institute experience to the acceptance of unitary explanation of life
Religion that cultivates these virtues within man and impels him to automatic righteousness and adherence to duty to make sacrifices for the sake of others
Without the backing of religion, morality is nothing more than arithmomancy , as without it, the sense of obligation disappears

36. Power to Endure Adversities of Life
Religion provides power for facing adversities
Serves as a fortification against undesirable reactions of despair and hopelessness
A religious man, with firm belief in Allah, and of His generosity, does not find himself in utter desperation even in the worst moments , as he knows, he is under the protection of a Being who is Almighty.
Can overcome every disappointment and hopelessness

37. Strength for life- No Fear
Holy Quran says:

38. According to Dr. Will Durant
Behavior of a man
who is not blessed
with reliance on
religion suffers from
special confusion,
and the life which
has not the
comforting support of
religion, is an
unbearable burden

39. Roots of Religious Sense
It covers the entire recorded history of human life and in pre-historic times Religious Institution are found
Islam is in harmony with nature which Allah has designed for man. ( Surah al -Rum,30 : 30)
Research carried out by sociologists and historians shows that places of worship have always had an influence on human life, and religion in its various shapes has been interwoven with its history

40. “Mein ny apny Khuda ko apny eradon k totny sy pahchana”
A thought ! 40
Is religion possible without GOD ?
Is religion a cause to recognize the GOD ?
Will religion end when human beings will reach at Heaven or Hell ?
Hazrat Ali (RA) said
“Mein ny apny Khuda ko apny eradon k totny sy pahchana”
(I recognized my God , when my intentions were doomed)

41. Epilogue As long as there are : Poverty, Desires and Planning41
As long as there are :
Poverty,
Desires and Planning
there will be gods there will be religion
God is a beautiful manifestation of human wishes

42. Need for Religion in Scientific Age/Modern Age

43. Other Arguments For Social Order As source of Law
To fill the ideological vacuum
To Authenticate science
As change Agent
For Universal Peace

44. Points of Peaceful co-existence
Ethical and Morality
System of Sin and Virtues
Respect for Humanity
Universal Peace
Tolerance
Acceptance of divine wisdom
Share common cultural identity
Muslims and Christians share the Abrahamic tradition of faith
Share responsibility of Global Village

45. Thanku, the most !