Ideology is composed of an idea and a method. Democracy is the best form of government. Capitalism as an ideology is based upon the idea of separating religion from life. This idea is its doctrine, its intellectual leadership and its intellectual basis. According to this intellectual basis man lays down the system for this life, so it is necessary to preserve for man the following types of freedom: freedom of belief, freedom of opinion, freedom of ownership and personal freedom. The capitalist economic system resulted from the freedom of ownership, so capitalism has become the most prominent feature in this ideology and the most prominent matter that resulted from the doctrine of this ideology.
This ideology originally emerged when the emperors and kings of Europe and Russia were using religion as a means to exploit the peoples, transgress against them and suck their blood. They used the clergy as an instrument for this. There arose, as a result of this, a bloody struggle in which some philosophers and thinkers denied religion completely. Others acknowledged religion but called for its separation from this life. This idea is considered a compromise (solution) between the clergy, on the one hand, who sought to control everything in the name of religion and the philosophers and thinkers, on the other hand, who denied religion and the authority of the clergy. Therefore, this idea did not deny religion nor did it allow it to interfere in the life, instead it just separated it from life.
Consequently, the doctrine, which the West embraced, is the separation of religion from life. It is the intellectual leadership, which the West carries and calls the world to. The separation of religion from life implicitly recognises religion, and by doing so, it recognises that there is a Creator for the universe, man and life and that there will be a Day of Resurrection, because this is the foundation of religion as a religion. This acknowledgement provides an idea about the universe, man, life, what preceded this life and what is to follow it, because it didn't deny the existence of religion. Rather when it called for its separation from it implicitly confirmed its existence and gave an idea that there is no relationship between this life with what preceded it and with what is to follow it, when it called for the separation of religion from life and that religion is only a relationship between the individual and his Creator. Accordingly, this doctrine (separation of religion from the life), by its all-inclusive concept, constitutes a comprehensive idea about the universe, man and life. Thus the capitalist ideology, by this explanation, is an ideology like any other.
