Downfall of Muslims
Qur’aanic Verse:
Transliteration:
11. Lahu muAAaqqibatun min bayni yadayhi wamin khalfihi yahfathoonahu min amri Allahi inna Allaha la yughayyiru ma biqawmin hatta yughayyiroo ma bi-anfusihim wa-itha arada Allahu biqawmin soo-an fala maradda lahu wama lahum min doonihi min walin
Translation:
11. For every human being there are angels who take turns, in front of him/her and behind, to guard him/her by Allah’s commandment. Allah does indeed not change the condition of a people until they themselves change it.7 And when Allah wills adversity on a people, there is no averting it. And besides Him they have no ruling authority to defend and take care of them.
Study Note:
7. For centuries after the revelation of the Qur’aan, Muslims enjoyed dominance over others, both politically and culturally. They then, by and large, adhered to Qur’aanic teachings. But, now, the same Muslims are down and out among the modern nations of the world. Allah did not change their condition; they changed it themselves. They stopped adhering to Qur’aanic teachings.
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The above is extracted from yet-to-be-published Qur’aanic Studies - Volume XXV. It will be published, in due course, inshaAllah on the website INVITATION TO SALVATION, in continuation of Volumes I to XXIV already published and freely available thereon.
Mohammad Shafi
Author of ‘ISLAM & INTEREST‘
October 3rd, 2009 at 10:12 am
VICTORY IS GUARANTEEDFOR MUSLIMS
HISTORICAL FACTS
For as long as the Muslim Ummah upheld Quran, and nothing but Quran, the Muslims led the world scientifically, technologically, culturally, socially, militarily, and economically. They never lost a single battle. The borders of Islam extended from West Africa to China; into Southern France and Eastern Germany
Yes as The Quran teaches, unequivocally, that victory is G U A R A N T E E D for the Muslims:
“We have decreed that the believers will be victorious.” (30:47)
“We will positively grant victory to our messengers, and to those who believe, both in this live and on the day of resurrection.” (40:51)
“God will support with victory those who support Him. God is powerful, Almighty.” (22:40)
“God will surely defend those who believe. God does not like any betrayer, disbeliever.” (22:38)
“O you who believe, if you support God, He will grant you victory, and strengthen your foothold.” (47:7)
WHY THEN ARE THE MUSLIMS DEFEATED ? Where Have We Gone Wrong?
The time is ripe for Muslims and for mankind as a whole to undertake a fundamental study of this great human crisis. At some point, somewhere, we have gone wrong. Where have we gone wrong? It will be recalled that modern secular Europe emerged in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in rebellion against the Catholic Church in particular and against religion in general to embrace secular humanism of the liberal or Marxist variety. For the last one to three hundred years it experimented with these social philosophies and systems and the experiments have proved a failure. Today the two philosophies and systems are seeking a synthesis. Can the synthesis be achieved? Can it answer mankind’s present quest for a new spiritual philosophy?
As for the Muslims, the new and young Muslim society and state set up by Muhammad and his compatriots in seventh century Arabia developed and expanded so rapidly that within a century it had become an empire to comprise also Persia and Byzantium, and within two to three hundred years it had created a great world civilization. But, as quickly as it had arisen, so quickly had it declined and fallen. Today, the Muslim polity, science and civilization, great though they were in their time, are glories and things of the past. There seems to be no bridge linking their great predecessors of the early centuries and present-day Muslims.
The great question mark hanging over the Muslims and the entire mankind today is: Why? The short answer to the question is that mankind, including the Muslims, have deserted the true teachings of God. The true teachings of God in the era of Muhammad is contained in His final scripture to mankind, the Quran. The People of the Scripture, i.e. believers before Muhammad, especially the Jews and the Christians, rejected Muhammad because they had idolized their own prophets and religious leaders and refused to acknowledge Muhammad’s divine message. Modern secular rebellious Europe not only turned against their religious priesthood, in which action it was right, but also against religion altogether, in which action it was wrong. This is the cause of the present Western impasse.
As regards the Muslims, Muhammad brought them the Quran, described by God Himself as an invincible book, but no sooner did Muhammad die and leave them, they contrived to make Muhammad bring two books and, after bitter quarrels, they legislated, two hundred and fifty years later, that Muslims must uphold not only the Quran but also the hadith. However, in truth, since then, they followed the hadith rather than the Quran. This explains God’s warning in the Quran that have quoted earlier. So it came about that while secular Europe embraced either liberalism or Marxism, the Muslim world embraced the hadith, with the philosophies of secular humanism infecting the elites of Muslim societies, thus justifying the Quranic warning
In view of the guarantees shown on the previous page, and since God is never wrong, the “Muslims” of today could not possibly be Muslims.
With the appearance of Hadith & Sunna at the beginning of the third century AH, a progressive deterioration of the Muslim Ummah began. Since the appearance of these innovations as sources of guidance beside the Quran, the “Muslims” never won a single battle.
Why do 3 million Israelis consistently defeat 150 million Arabs???
Does it make any sense that 3 million Israelis should force 1,000 million “Muslims” out of their Mosque in Jerusalem? Why does India consistently defeat Pakistan? Why do the Russians invade Afghanistan? etc…etc…etc. WHY THEN ARE THE “MUSLIMS” DEFEATED?
BECAUSE they refuse to believe God in His repeated statements that Quran is COMPLETE, PERFECT, FULLY DETAILED, and SHALL BE THE ONLY SOURCE OF RELIGIOUS GUIDANCE.
Yes they have accepted other sources, beside Quran. They are accepting the words of their religious Scholars (Hadiths) rather than the Word of God ( The Quran)
This is what the Quran , the Word of God, says about those who follow the words of these scholars.
They have set up their religious leaders and scholars as lords,
instead of GOD. [9:31]
Again The Quran Says :
[2:85] Yet, here you are killing each other, and evicting some of you from their homes, banding against them sinfully and maliciously. Even when they surrendered, you demanded ransom from them. Evicting them was prohibited for you in the first place. Do you believe in part of the scripture and disbelieve in part? What should be the retribution for those among you who do this, except humiliation in this life, and a far worse retribution on the Day of Resurrection? GOD is never unaware of anything you do.
Yes this is the Main and ONE and ONLY reason for the Current situation of the Muslim Umma as mentioned in the following Verses
“Whoever disregards My message (Quran) shall have a miserable life, then we will resurrect him, on the Day of Resurrection, blind. He will say, ‘My Lord, why did You resurrect me blind, when I used to be a seer (in the first life)?’ (God will say), ‘This is because Our revelations came to you, but your forgot them, and consequently, today we forget you.’ We thus punish those who exceed the limits and refuse to believe the verses of their Lord. And surely, the retribution in the Hereafter is far worse, and everlasting.” (20:124-127)
October 5th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
The following verse sums it up I suppose.
[45.6] What Hadith after Allah and His Verses would they then believe in?