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One of our brothers/sisters has asked this question:

Why do muslims fight others and when they are in their own land they fight themselves and kill. Look at Dili in Indonesia, Mindanao in Philippines, Kashmir, Palestine, Chechnya, Iraq, Kuwait, Iran, Afghanisthan. Sunnys call Shias 110 volt (Half Muslim) and they totally refuse them. Whereever Sunnys are more they oppress Shia and vice versa. At this stage if the all world world becomes Islam as you claim, the peace will be gone once for all as fighting will be the order of life. Today in Islam, money and power plays the main role not the principles of Holly Quran. You dont seem to accept the reality... You are still justifying the barbarian acts of the Taliban, Abu Sayef etc.,

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Answer:

State of the Islamic Ummah

In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and who-ever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there is no one (no idol, no person, no grave, no prophet, no imam, no dai, nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.

My beloved brother, the reality is clear and open for anyone who wants to see! The reality is that Allah has sent us all on this earth as a test for an appointed time. And when this appointed time is over, we will all return back to our Lord. The reality is that, without a doubt, there will be a Day of Accounting in the Court of Allah, and we are advised by Allah and His Messenger (saws) to prepare for this Inevitable Day.

All that we see, feel, touch, own, and disown will perish; and only the Reality that has been promised by Allah in the Holy Quran will take place!

And you are absolutely right when you say that today in the muslim Ummah, money and power play the main roles; not the principles of the Holy Quran!

The majority of the muslims don’t even know the guidance and principles of the Quran and the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (saws). They have preferred the transitory pleasures and luxuries of this worldly life to the everlasting gardens of Paradise in the Hereafter! And whenever one prefers this worldly life to the Hereafter, the result will be as we see today; the lives will revolve around power and money instead of the principles and guidance of the Holy Quran.

The guidance of Truth from Allah and His Messenger (saws) is constant, and that cannot, and shall not be changed! Whoever follows this guidance, will live in peace and harmony with himself and the world. Whoever denies this guidance, and lives according to his own lusts and desires, will create nothing but chaos on the earth. Thus if one sees the state of the muslims, and the muslim Ummah today, and says that the deen of Islam is responsible; they are absolutely wrong in their deduction. Islam is the perfect way of life ordained by Allah, but it is we who have not followed the guidance sent by Allah; thus only we are responsible, and not the deen of Islam.

Brother, the truth of the matter is, that most of the muslim nations have lived the past 300 or so years in slavery and subjugation of the pagans. And the enemies of Islam have used this time to strengthen their paganism, divide the muslim Ummah, change the education system of the muslims, sowed the seeds of disharmony, and have used every means available to portray Islam as the enemy to humanity!

After this long period of slavery and subjugation, the muslim nations got their freedom about 40-50 years ago. And 50 years cannot be considered a long time in the history of the world. Slowly, but surely, a revival is taking place in the muslim Ummah, and the believers are turning back to the guidance of Allah and His Messenger (saws). It will take time but it will happen, for the Truth will always come out victorious over falsehood! And when this revival happens, the clash between the two civilizations is imminent! And contrary to popular belief, it is not Islam which is intolerant towards the secular world, but rather, as is so evident today, it is the secular world which is intolerant towards Islam!

Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 3 Surah Ale-Imran verse 19:Indeed, Islam in the ONLY right way of life in the sight of Allah.

Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 3 Surah Ale-Imran verse 85:And whoever adopts any other than this way of Islam, that way shall not be accepted from him; and in the Hereafter, he shall be among the losers.

Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 61 Surah Saff verse 9:It is Allah Who has sent His Messenger with the Guidance, and the Religion of Truth, so that He may cause it to prevail over all the other ‘deens’ (or Ways of Life); much as the pagans may detest it!

Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.

Your brother and well wisher in Islam,

Burhan