Since the outbreak of the Egyptian uprising in January 2011, there hasbeen a broad debate and significant shifts in terms of the identity of the state,which indicates future quality challenges. Dispute has become clear over thenature of the state between secularists and Islamists, focused on the contrastbetween a civil, religious and military state. The present study attempts toforesee the track of the political shift in the country by investigating threeaspects. The first is the political approaches towards a civil state since therevolt, derived from documents, statements and announcements connected tothe interim stage by all relevant parties. The second is the relationshipbetween the various political and intellectual trends and their impacts on thetrack of the dilemma, by looking into the political employment of theconcepts of ‘civil’, ‘religious’ and ‘military’ to reach what is called‘Brotherhoodization’. The third is the impact of political parties’ differentperspectives of those contradictory concepts on the building of the state andtheir likely scenarios.