I took many days to write on this topic. I pondered on this issue a lot and when I was writing I was very concious about each and every word. I could go into the details myself but it would become so long to read. That’s why I summarized it and thought people could think further themselves.

Actually the main problem is that muslims are not clear even on the basic concepts of Islam. The downfall of muslims began when Islam started being considered as a religion instead of a DEEN. It was not something between God and Man. Islam brought a system to serve humanity and wanted to involve men to establish a heavenly society. But unfortunately after few years, it started inheriting the religious concepts from other religions and Islam lost its attraction. Why It happened? Because people left the rope of Allah that is Qur’an and started associating themselve to different personalities instead of a single GOD. “Tauheed” bacame “Worshiping a single God” so people worshipped Allah but lived according to others.
I will soon be writing on “Reasons of Downfall of Muslim Ummah” that will probably cover all these issues.

Here I would like to reply on some of your points.

You said: “the sectarianism started right after the death of Prophet (P.B.U.H) (Shia and Shunni) but still in the time of Hazrat Umer and even after his regime muslims conquered half of the world, then what is the reason that we can not achieve this height, glory now.”

My Response: See, Few problems do not give their results immediately. Sometimes, It takes years or sometimes centuries. And second thing conquering half of the world is not a criteria to check the affects of Islam on the society. But I believe the muslim society in the time of Hazrat Umar was the practical example of the revelation. He was the one of the closest companions of Mohammad P.B.U.H, obviously he received pure Islamic Teachings. Why he said that “even if a dog dies near the valley of farat, umar will held responsible”? He could easily divert this issue towards GOD. But He knew that Islam is a system and we have to establish it ourselves.

You said that we should take this sectariansim as a strength and should find commonalities between them.

My Response: You mean we should mix diamonds with the garbage and then find those diamonds again? There is a big difference between School of thoughts and sects. A wall could also be built straight with bricks of different colors but if a single brick has been adjusted improperly then you can imagine where that wall can go. Two lines with minor difference in their angles even starting from a single point will always go in different directions.

And in response to your last paragraph: There may be different ways to reach to a destination but there will be only a single path that will go straight towards your destination and that is called “Sirat-e-Mustaqeem”. Who told you that Judism and Christianity or the “Altered” Islam were from Allah? I think you re-read “First Episode” from my post.

Thank You

http://iht.com/articles/2008/06/25/opinion/edcohen.php

Just recently I read the case study about how Catholic Church has been operating and how multinational companies should take lessons from it. In that it was clearly mentioned that the biggest core competency were the core ideas and values around which it evolved remained the same since its creation i.e. 2000 years, but in our case sadly that was not maintained for few hundred years!

I have the stats with me. Fifty seven muslim countries have just five hundred universities that means one university for every three million muslims. I have this topic in my list, will be writing very soon.

I do not consider non-muslims as “enemies of Islam”, enemies and criminals of Islam are majority of musilms themselves. There is a monopoly of few people having a specific set of mind, so much ritualism, fatalism, mullah propogated beliefs and principles, lack of education, ignoring matters of this world, waiting for the rewards in hereafter.

You are right that the decline began when we stopped thinking and of course there are also reasons behind this idleness. Iqbal pointed out three major things, he says “ae kushta-e-sultani-o-mullayi-o-peeri” means “Victim of Monarchy, Mullayiat and Blind Following”

Thank you,
!mran

Today, the Islamic world of 1.5 billion people produces no significant academic or scientific contribution to the world. Our universities which used to be ranked at the top in terms of global rankings are now at the bottom of the heap. our great libraries which were visited by people from all over the world are no more. Can you imagine that the entire Islamic world produces less scientific material than the state of israel which is 3 million people.

Given the situation we are in it is only natural to blame others for our predicament. This is not the case. Yes external forces might want to keep us down but getting to stage we can only blame ourselves. And the solution is also something only we can work out but only after we admit that we are here because of our own shortcomings – whether they are in terms of leadership or what is now important to us.

btw Ahmed, there is a lot of firqa bandi in all the religions you have named – not to the same extent but the fissures are there.

best,
shakir

This firqa bundi has really blurred the real image of Islam