This means that Muslims are expected to submit to the will of Allah and live according to Islamic principles. It is often forgotten it is also a discursive tradition that is intertwined with power and politics, with the concept of dar al-Islam (the "abode of Islam") referring to the social and territorial embodiment of Islam. Islam is a deen, a way of life that is centered around the belief in and servitude of one God. While true, it does not describe how such a separation is made possible, enacted, and reenacted. To say “Islam means submission to one God” says little about Islam as saying "secularism is the ideology that upholds separation of church and state".
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