Undoubtedly the Muslim Brotherhood, like other religious movements (Christian, Jewish, and Muslim) believes that man is not lord of himself and that divine authority and sacred writings are binding on man and impose limits on his way of life. Theology, in its interpretation of sacred writings, reveals hidden layers of reality, which human intelligence, science, and technology will never manage to reveal, in contrast to the Kantian ideas on the possibility of conquering happiness on the basis of human reason alone. According to the Muslim Brotherhood, the moral world and the desire to establish justice on earth require reliance on religious law and sacred writings, and they are to be preferred over human laws. In these senses, the Muslim Brotherhood is close to the Western anti-liberal movements, and the profound influence of such Western thinkers is recognizable on the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as on Shiite thought in the Islamic Revolution in Iran.
Posted on: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 19:14:55 +0000
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