The struggle of people to survive makes it necessary to live in a community. There are some problems and responsibilities that arise from a partnership. The existence of people who take responsibility for the purpose of eliminating or minimizing the problems of living in a community is important in this respect. People who take responsibility take intellectual and practical actions for this purpose. Social movements are organic and mechanical structures, as Durkheim puts it, that these actions reveal. Every social movement is based on a reason for existence. It must explain itself with a lofty purpose. This can be on a religious as well as a secular or ideological basis. Therefore, the forward-looking society vision of social movements is shaped on these foundations.
Social movements based on ideology try to express themselves within the limits determined by their ideology. These limits are absolute for each of its members and it tries to contribute within this absoluteness. The idea of society's changing face, mobility and reaching different levels of consciousness is not important for production. The important thing is to realize the social structure promised by its ideology. However, it will be inevitable for it to assume a narrow and static content since it cannot exceed the ideological boundaries. This will bring with it introversion and pressure. We all know how fascism in the first half of the 20th century, communism's conception of society turned into oppression and oppression in the second half.
Social movements that are based on a secular basis, in other words, shaped according to the conditions of the day, see themselves as more scientific, realistic, open to change and from the inside of life. Although this is partially so, we can easily see today how decision makers turn scientific and reality upside down. This leaves the chance of social movements to be involved in life to the desires of the decision makers. Although their propensity to change makes such social movements more attractive, since the decisive factor of change is the decision makers, their vision of society for the future will be formed outside of themselves. We know that this understanding is dominant in the formation of today's social structure. As far as we can see, the current social reality is far from the ideal. Because the slices of the pie in the economic sense, the participation in the decision-making mechanisms in the political sense, the scope of social peace and tranquility in the social sense do not comply with the criteria of equity.
While social movements that start out with religious concerns have an important opportunity, they also contain weakness. The encompassing and persuasive power of religion enables the movement to express itself effectively to the society. But at the same time, the fact that religion is unquestionable loses its chance to hold on in life as the past sociality turns into religious acceptance. The embedding of religion's self-assertion in the principles of the movement offers an important opportunity. On the other hand, if the outward aspect of religion seems to be the principles of the movement, it is inevitable that the social movement will move away from life. Sometimes this can be by not caring, or sometimes it can be by giving a negative meaning to religion. In both cases, religion loses its chance of being involved in social life.
Ultimately, social movements set out with a purpose and engage in a study of their conceptions of society. The important thing is that these movements receive the necessary response from the society. However, then there is a parallelism between the aims of these movements and what they do. The purpose of this long introduction is to discuss, in our next article, how a movement that centers Islam in its conceptions of society can achieve this.