Sekularizim jagora ce ta fikra, domin yana jagora yana kuma tafiyar da rayuwar wanda ya karɓe shi. Yana bayyana ra'ayinsa game da rayuwa kuma yana ayyana hanyar rayuwa a gare shi. Dangane da ra'ayin sekularizim, an gina shi ne bisa tushen amfanin kai (neman moriya), domin yana ganin rayuwa a matsayin amfani, yana ganin jin daɗin duniya kawai, ba jin daɗin Lahira ba. Yana ganin cimma sha'awar jin daɗi da jin daɗin son rai ta hanyar jin daɗin jiki kawai. Ba ya ganin wani daraja a cikin komai sai darajar abin duniya. Ba shi da dabi'un ruhaniya, na ɗabi'a ko na jin kai. Dangane da hanyar rayuwar da sekularizim ke jagorantar da tafiyar da waɗanda suka karɓe shi, hanya ce ta rayuwa da ke wakiltar 'yanci da son kai.

Secularism is an intellectual leadership because it leads and directs the life of the one who adopts it. It specifies the viewpoint towards life and defines the way of life for him. As for the viewpoint of secularism, it is built upon the basis of utilitarianism (seeking benefit) as it perceives life as utility, seeing only worldly happiness and not happiness in the Hereafter. It sees only achieving the appetite of pleasure and the hedonistic enjoyment through bodily pleasure. It sees no value in anything other than the materialistic value. It does not have spiritual, moral or humanitarian values. As for the way of life to which secularism leads and directs those who adopt it, it is the lifestyle representing freedom and individualism.

Sakularizm a matsayin jagoranci na ilimi ya gaza, domin bai ba ɗan Adam farin ciki na gaskiya ba. Waɗanda suka rungumi shi ba su sami natsuwa da kwanciyar hankali ba. Wannan jagoranci na ilimi ya jawo wa al'ummai da mutane masifu ta hanyar ra'ayinsa na amfani da kuma salon rayuwa marar takura. A zamaninsa, ɗan Adam ya shaida yaƙe-yaƙen duniya, sansanonin tsare mutane na Nazi da na fascist, aikata laifuka da aka tsara, talauci na miliyoyin mutane da yunwar da ke kashe mutane. Wannan jagoranci na ilimi ya kawo tare da shi cututtukan hankali, kamar baƙin ciki, da cututtukan jiki, kamar AIDS. Batsa ma ta yi yawa sosai, lamarin da ya haifar da rushewar zumunta a cikin al'umma da iyali, ya kuma haifar da al'adar fyaɗe da tashin hankali ga mata. Haka kuma ya ƙarfafa tunanin kashe kai.

Secularism as an intellectual leadership has failed because it did not grant humankind true happiness. Those who adopt it did not find tranquility and serenity. This intellectual leadership has inflicted calamities upon nations and peoples with its utilitarian viewpoint and permissive way of life. During its time, humanity has witnessed world wars, Nazi and fascist concentration camps, organized crime, poverty of millions of people and starvation to death. This intellectual leadership has brought with it psychological diseases, such as depression, and physical diseases, such as AIDS. Pornography has become rampant as well, which resulted in the breakup of societal and family ties, producing a rape culture and violence against women. It also has fostered the idea of suicide.

Saboda haka, jagorancin ilimi na Yammacin duniya jagoranci ne da ya gaza, a ka’ida da kuma a aikace, kamar yadda mutanensa da kansu suka tabbatar. A cikin littafinsu mai suna Acts of Faith- Explaining the Human Side of Religion, masana ilimin zamantakewa Rodney Stark da Roger Finke sun yi wata suka mai zafi da ci gaba, inda suke ba da shawarar cewa lokaci ya yi da za a binne ka’idar secularization, “Bayan kusan karni uku na annabce-annabcen da suka gaza gaba ɗaya da kuma gurbatattun bayanai game da yanzu da kuma baya, ya zama kamar lokaci ya yi da za a kai ka’idar secularization makabartar ra’ayoyin da suka gaza, a can kuma a ce da ita ‘requiescat in pace, (ka huta lafiya).’”

Thus, the Western intellectual leadership is a failed leadership, both theoretically and practically, as attested to by its own people. In a fierce and sustained critique in their book, Acts of Faith- Explaining the Human Side of Religion, sociologists Rodney Stark and Roger Finke suggest it is time to bury the secularization thesis, “After nearly three centuries of utterly failed prophesies and misrepresentations of both present and past, it seems time to carry the secularization doctrine to the graveyard of failed theories, and there to whisper ‘requiescat in pace, (rest in peace).’”