Millions of Muslims pray annually during Hajj for the revival of the Muslim Ummah, the dominance of Islam over Kufr, the liberation of Kashmir, Palestine, Kosovo and other Muslin lands from the dominance of the Kuffar and the elevation of the Muslim Ummah to its past glory. Similarly, millions of Muslims supplicate to Allah every day and special prayers are offered during Ramadhan for the Ummah; but we find that in spite of these sincere prayers, the situation of the Muslim Ummah has been declining from bad to worse, day by day, and many sincere Muslims wonder why Allah does not listen to their prayers and why He has given a free hand to the Kuffar to maim, slaughter and destroy the Ummah as and when they wish. This is in spite of the fact that Muslims undoubtedly believe in Allah while the Kuffar are bent upon destroying Islam. Due to this situation many scholars, Islamic groups and individuals from amongst the Muslim Ummah took it upon themselves to rid the Ummah of this rotten state and they intended to do this by encouraging Muslims to pray all the five prayers in the mosque, pray as much ?Nawafil? as they can, keep fasts and perform pilgrimages to Makkah regularly in addition to telling the truth and being honest and humble. This is because they thought that the decline of Muslims occurred because these qualities vanished from amongst the Muslims and revival can only occur if Muslims start performing these actions and inculcate these qualities in themselves. If we study the actual position we will find that no amount of prayers or honesty and truthfulness alone will lead the Ummah to revival because these are not the reasons for the Muslims` decline in the first place and, furthermore, Islam requires much more from us than just some rituals if we really wish to work for the revival of the Ummah. The reason for the Muslims decline is not that Muslims do not pray enough or that they do not have enough ?Taqwah?; anyone in doubt should see the mosques during Ramadhan or listen to the cries of Muslims during Hajj. Indeed the reason is not this. If one were to review the history of Islam one would find that one of the major reasons was the stopping of Ijtihad in Islam. Ijtihad is the process by which the Shariah rule is derived from the Quran and the Sunnah of the Prophet (SAW) for a new problem. This was combined with detaching the Arabic language from Islam thus robbing Islam of its vitality
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 23:43:36 +0000
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