The reason for the downfall of Muslims in today’s world

 

No Muslim residing nowadays will deny that current Muslims are hated, despised, and regarded as backward. Exceptions apart, this is the case of Muslims whether or not residing as a majority or minority throughout the globe. It is no longer that we are terrible or uneducated or due to the fact we lack political power. There are fifty-eight nations that declare themselves to be “Islamic” and consequently qualify for membership in the Organisation of Islamic Conference. Yet they are unable to face a tiny country, Israel, to thwart one aggression after any other towards Muslim countries, or to pressure international locations like Myanmar and China now not to persecute their Muslim minorities.

The truth is that wealth at the disposal of hundreds of thousands of Muslim individuals, corporates, and states these days some distance exceeds what Muslims ever owned for the duration of the previous fifteen centuries. There is a navy of graduate, post-graduate, and doctorate-holder Muslims. Yet, as human beings and communities, Muslims are now not respected.

The sole motive I can suppose is that we have grown to become our Islam into rituals – our prayers, our fasts, our Haj, our ‘Umrah, our Zakat, and sadaqah have to emerge as useless rituals. Once outdoor mosques or on return from Makkah and Madinah, no distinction is discerned in our character. Such visits rarely enthuse us to stay in Islam in our actual lives in our homes, offices, workplaces, factories, and on the street. We stay carefree as if Islam poses no obligations and tasks on us and as if there will be no Day of Judgment ever. Our lives rarely vary from those who no longer agree with Islam, if now not worse.

Turning a vivid and modern Islam into dead rituals is the direct end result of our shunning of the Qur’an. Today we examine the Qur’an or hear it for thawab (reward in the Hereafter), now not as a supply of preparation and inspiration, no longer as information in our day-by-day personal or neighborhood lives. Even those who be aware of Arabic opt to pay attention to well-known reciters of the Qur’an in order to revel in the recital, now not as information and supply of notions and admonition. This is why our noble Prophet will whinge to Allah on the Day of Judgement: “O my Lord! Truly my humans abandoned this Qur’ān” (25:30). What an extreme indictment of our personality – we have abandoned the Book which taught us and made us how to be Muslims – a community which submits to Allah. It is the e-book that lifted the barefoot illiterate Arabs into courses and masters of the world within a long time of its first revelation in 610 CE.

Today, we have in our midst, in this country, such wretched human beings who inform us no longer to study the Qur’an translation because they claim, you will get erroneous due to the fact barring positive “sciences” (‘Tulum) you can't recognize the Qur’an! How strange! These “sciences” no longer exist in the time of the Prophet or the Companions or even throughout the time of those who succeeded them for the subsequent few centuries. Ordinary Companions of the Prophet understood the Qur’an immediately barring these so-called “sciences”. They lived it, propagated it, and conquered most of the recognized world at the time fired through their belief and appreciation of this divine message. Any section of “Islam” which was once now not recognized by the Prophet, his Companions, and the right away following generations (tabi’un, taba’ tabi’in) is no longer Islam of Muhammad.

Muslims in the Subcontinent are advised these days to study and are pressured to hear man-made books which are studied out in mosques alternatively of the Qur’an.

It is the obligation of each Muslim to study and apprehend the Qur’an in Arabic and if he does no longer be aware of Arabic, he should examine the Qur’an’s translation which is accessible in most languages of the world today. If you obtain a letter from an authorities official, will you begin doing its tilawat (reciting) once more and once more and count on that you have complied with its instructions? If you don’t recognize the letter’s language, you will rush to any individual who is aware of it. But a majority of Muslims these days are precisely doing this: making tilawat of the Quran, besides understanding what it says.

Muslims are erroneous in that basically pronouncing the Kalimah or pronouncing a few prayers or studying sure chapters of the Qur’an will suffice for their Salvation in the Hereafter. If we truly examine the Qur’an, we will in no way make such claims. The Qur’an on each web page exhorts us to trust in Allah and do righteous deeds. The two, trust and always doing righteous deeds, go hand-in-hand. Many assume that besides doing any righteous deed they will enter Paradise whilst Allah says in the Qur’an that merely pronouncing precise phrases is meaningless except accompanied by means of appropriate deeds (35:10).

The Qur’an says that Prayer (salat) “restrains from obscenity and abominable deeds” (29:45) however our prayer these days fails to make any actual effect on our lives or character. The Qur’an says that you have to spend “Whatever is in extra of your needs” (2:219) whilst our majority no longer pay even the meager quantities of Zakat, but tens of millions of Muslims around the world spend lavishly on social occasions, purchase most costly devices and compete to make ‘Umrah visits, one after the other, whilst their fellow Muslims starve in so many components of the world. We are doing the entirety to earn Allah’s wrath and but blame others! The sole way for our salvation is to examine the Qur’an, in translation if we do now not comprehend Arabic, and meticulously observe Allah’s instructions in each phase of our lives.

According to the Qur’an, this neighborhood is a pleasant neighborhood raised for mankind. It enjoins proper & forbids evil (3:110). This neighborhood has no longer been raised for itself. It has been entrusted with a mission to undergo witness to the Truth earlier than humanity. In order to elevate this mission, Muslim people and societies need to first return to the straight route in their idea and conduct. It is solely via dwelling in proper Islam that they can endure testimony earlier than the world.