Working Procedures for Passive Resistance in Relations with Foreigners from the Perspective of the Qur’anic verses and Traditions

To preserve the religious culture and the identity of the Islamic society, Islam had developed two approaches: positive and negative, i.e. association (friendship; tawallÁ)) and disassociation (tabarrÁ). The first approach aims to establish social correlation and to consolidate Islamic culture from within and the aim of the second one is to preserve Islamic culture and its independence against any external threatening factors. The negative approach becomes operative through varying positive and negative strategies and almost all negative strategies are based on passive resistance. The aim of this research work is to cast light on the passive resistance strategies and to apply this kind of resistance in the process of policy-making in the Islamic society. The method upon which this research is based is descriptive- analytic. Passive resistance strategies take different cultural, political, social, economic, and military forms. From among the most important forms of passive resistance, one can refer to boycotting media and anti-religious and immoral cultural products, boycotting cultural resemblance, refusing to adopt models from foreigners, rejecting their cultural symbols, cultural migration, building up resistance at any price, issuing judgement on the impurity of the idolators (atheists), forbidding to marry the atheists, showing social disrespect, imposing social restriction, rejecting foreigners’ social dominance, forbidding dependence on foreigners and spying for them, imposing sanctions against trade or military relations with the enemies if these relations may strengthen them.