Salam brother What do you think about the changes brought by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Turkey? Was what he did unislamic?
Alaikumassalam wa rahmatullah,
He did many things against Islam, such as forcing women not to wear hijab, and persecuting Islamic scholars. He also did some good things for Turkey. So each one of his actions has to be judged on its own, but on the whole he was no supporter of Islam.
And God knows best.
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Ataturk was a secularist, who modernized Turkey and saved it from total destruction. If he and others like him, did not engage in a fight there would be no muslim presence in present Turkey. He did modernize society and led a fight in emancipation of women. Thanks to his leadership we have a thriving muslim nation. He sure did more for muslims then most of contemporary so called muslim leaders today.
May he rest in peace.
If u are a nuslim u should delete this he was a anti islamist. Ge was nit a muslim at all
He doesnt need to clear his comment.Just because a person is supposedly against Islam does not mean that he will not do good things for Islam
Whether he was a Muslim or not doesn’t matter to me at all as a Muslim. I’m not even sure if he was a supporter of religion. If we’re going by that, he also wanted the Qur’an to be translated into Turkish. He might have done things against Islam as well. But here’s the real question: did the early Muslims truly uphold Islam? Many who call themselves Muslim today believe in countless fabrications and false narratives, even when they clearly contradict the Qur’an. Most Muslims believe in Islam merely as an “ancestral religion.” They don’t open the Qur’an and learn from it directly.
Traditional structures like the Caliphate, which eventually transformed into elements of shirk (associating partners with God), have become a mixture of politics and religion and have done far more damage to Islam over 1300 years than what Atatürk ever did. While Islamic legal codes may not be implemented in today’s Turkey, the strongest movements of returning to the Qur’an and rational interpretations within the Muslim world are coming from these very lands. This, knowingly or unknowingly, is due to the rationalist revolution initiated by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
As long as Muslims chase after positions like the Caliphate—which has no place in the Qur’anic language—and the notion of a divine state (which also has no Qur’anic basis), and continue to turn God’s religion into a man-made institution, then eventually, just like what happened with the Christians, a revolutionary figure—whose faith we may not even know—will rise in a corrupted religious environment and bring secularism, reducing religion to the realm of personal conscience.
No matter what, through a major intellectual revolution, he opened a crucial path for us Muslims. Who knows—maybe the great Islamic enlightenment began with a man we “assumed” was a non-believer. In this regard, he contributed to Islam far more than many so-called leaders who simply recite the shahada.
If we look closely, Muslims didn’t even embrace the Qur’anic method called “hikmah,” which is about producing solutions based on divine wisdom. Instead, they divided into sects. After such deep-rooted traditional corruption, we must also ask: if we take Qur’anic values as the reference, are the states that claim to apply Sharia today truly Islamic? Even that is debatable. Because the intellectual depth and moral principles presented by the Qur’an are nowhere to be seen among those who live in “Islamic” countries and claim to be Muslims.