Refutation of the Capitalist Western Thought by Hizb Ut Tahrir

The Western system is a collection of thoughts and rulings, emanating from the secular creed, that organizes the affairs of people and regulates relationships. The system includes treatments for all the problems of humankind, in all aspects of life, clarifying how to implement those treatments, protect the creed and spread the ideology. The term system is also used to denote organized thoughts and rulings, within a particular domain. It is said, for instance, what is intended by the ruling system is to denote the collection of thoughts and rulings, without which affairs of the people cannot be taken care of, or without which people cannot be ruled. So, the ruling system includes political, administrative, judicial and financial, amongst other aspects.

The system emerges from the creed, because creed it is an intellectual basis upon which all the branches of thought are built and from which all rulings emerge. The creed is the root and the system is the branch. Consequently, the invalidity of the creed invalidates the entire system, as it is the branch of the creed. Here, we are to detail the invalidity of Western thought as a whole. So we will explain here the invalidity of the Western system, by going through some fundamental foundations upon which its economic, ruling and social systems are established. Moreover, the West itself presents its civilization with its system to humankind as the ultimate model of progress. It claims that its system has sound evidence and self-evident validity. It asserts that its pillars have achieved the revival of its people and produced material development. The clearest example of this is the Islamic Lands where the Western capitalist and democratic systems were implemented and adopted as a method, which Muslim people are adopting without realizing. Accordingly, the foundations of the Western system must be examined and refuted to clarify its unsuitability and invalidity, as well as the falsity of what it has achieved and produced.