CaMaR : A Journey to be better muslims
:: Purification of the soul and the plight of the muslim nation today(Part I) By Jamaaluddin Zarabozo ::
Currently, one may hear a great deal of discussion concerning the plight of the Muslims and what needs to be done to resolve the many problems in today's Muslim world and elsewhere. Many Muslims cannot figure out why they, given that the Muslims have the true religion, are facing the difficulties that they are currently facing. Muslims are, inded, facing grave difficulties today. Many times, it seems as though the blood and honor of a Muslim is worth absolutely nothing today-even to those people who make a great show of claiming to believe in and stand for human rights. This seems to be a very dire plight that contemporary Muslims are experiencing. Unfortunately, though, the solutions for those problems are sometimes not understood by many Muslims.
Inn trying to solve the problems of the Muslim Ummah, some Muslims have emphasized the material aspect while others emphasize some kind of "democratic" political approach.The first grooup sees the entire problem as a result of the military-caliphate weakness of the Muslims. Once this problem can be resolved, the Muslims will have the physical strength to defeat their worldly enemies and establish the caliphate and so forth. Indeed, establishing the caliphate is the overall goal in life for many of these people, virtually ignoring the more general concept of purification of the soul in the meantime. On the other hand, the others see the plight of the Muslim Ummah as a a result of the Muslims estranging themselves from contemporary civilization. If the Muslims would simply compromise with the other ideologies of the world and accept some of what the request, the differing parties or ideologies would be able to live in peace, with the Muslims having their own states to run their own internal affairs. Others attempt to combine these two approaches and emphasize Muslim unity wherein the different Muslim countries as they are today should come together to forge a military and politically strong entity. This should then resolve the current plight of the Muslims of today.
In the light of the teachings of the Qur'an, however, it seems very clear that the problems faced by the Muslims are the result of the actions that they themselves are performing. Every believer must realize and believe with certainty that victory and support come only from Allah
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