1) Why are Muslims so backward and powerless?2) ALLAH replaces it With Something Better!

 

In the name of Allah, the Most-Merciful, the All-Compassionate

 

"May the Peace and Blessings of Allah be Upon You"

 

Bismillah Walhamdulillah Was Salaatu Was Salaam 'ala Rasulillah

                       As-Salaam Alaykum Wa-Rahmatullahi Wa-Barakaatuh

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1) Why are Muslims so backward and powerless?

We Muslims must wonder why that is only Muslim States like Iraq,

Afghanistan and Libya are being attacked by the Christian West.

Why do we get pushed around by them with the former President of

the US George Bush calling it a crusade! Why is that Muslim States

often depend on the West for survival, even Saudi Arabia,

the epicentre for Islamic fundamentalism is dependent on

American largesse for their survival. While they preach Wahhabi Islam

all over the world, they allow American bases within a few hundred kilometres

from the Holiest Shrines of Islam.

There are an estimated 1,476,233,470 Muslims on the face

of the planet: one billion in Asia, 400 million in Africa, 44 million in

Europe and six million in the Americas . Every fifth human being is

a Muslim; for every single Hindu there are two Muslims, for every

Buddhist there are two Muslims and for every Jew there are one hundred Muslims.

Ever wondered why Muslims are so powerless?

Here is why: There are 57 member-countries of the

Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC), and all of them put together

have around 500 universities; one university for every three million Muslims.

The United States has 5,758 universities and India has 8,407.

In 2004, Shanghai Jiao Tong University compiled an

'Academic Ranking of World Universities' , and intriguingly,

not one university from Muslim-majority states was in the top-500.

As per data collected by the UNDP, literacy in the

Christian world stands at nearly 90 per cent and 15 Christian-majority states

have a literacy rate of 100 per cent.

A Muslim-majority state, as a sharp contrast, has an average literacy

rate of around 40 per cent and there is no Muslim-majority state

with a literacy rate of 100 per cent.

Some 98 per cent of the 'literates' in the Christian world had completed

primary school, while less than 50 per cent of the 'literates'

in the Muslim world did the same.

Around 40 per cent of the 'literates' in the Christian world attended

university while no more than two per cent of the 'literates' in

the Muslim world did the same.

Muslim-majority countries have 230 scientists per one million Muslims.

The US has 4,000 scientists per million and Japan has 5,000 per million.
In the entire Arab world, the total number of full-time researchers is

35,000 and there are only 50 technicians per one million Arabs.

(in the Christian world there are up to 1,000 technicians per one million).

Furthermore, the Muslim world spends 0.2 per cent of its GDP on

research and development, while the Christian world spends

around five per cent of its GDP.

Conclusion: The Muslim world lacks the capacity to produce knowledge!

Daily newspapers per 1,000 people and number of book titles

per million are two indicators of whether knowledge is being

diffused in a society.

In Pakistan, there are 23 daily newspapers per 1,000 Pakistanis

while the same ratio in Singapore is 360. In the UK , the number

of book titles per million stands at 2,000 while the same

in Egypt is 20.

Conclusion: The Muslim world is failing to diffuse knowledge.

Exports of high technology products as a percentage of total exports

are an important indicator of knowledge application. Pakistan's export

of high technology products as a percentage of total exports stands

at one per cent. The same for Saudi Arabia is 0.3 per cent;

Kuwait , Morocco , and Algeria are all at 0.3 per cent,

while Singapore is at 58 per cent.

Conclusion:

The Muslim world is failing to apply knowledge.


Why are Muslims powerless?
.....Because we aren't producing knowledge,
.....Because we aren't diffusing knowledge.,
.....Because we aren't applying knowledge.

And, the future belongs to knowledge-based societies.

Interestingly, the combined annual GDP of 57 OIC-countries is under $2 trillion.
America , just by herself, produces goods and services worth $12 trillion;
China $8 trillion,
Japan $3.8 trillion and
Germany $2.4 trillion (purchasing power parity basis).

Oil rich Saudi Arabia , UAE, Kuwait and Qatar collectively

produce goods and services (mostly oil) worth $500 billion;

Spain alone produces goods and services worth over $1 trillion,
Catholic Poland $489 billion and Buddhist Thailand $545 billion.

..... ( Muslim GDP as a percentage of world GDP is fast declining ).

So, why are Muslims so powerless?

Answer: Lack of education.


All we do is shouting to Allah the whole day and blame everyone else for our multiple failures!

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The writer,Dr.Farrukh Saleem is the Pakistani Executive Director of the Centre for

Research and Security Studies, a think tank established

in 2007 and an Islamabad-based freelance columnist.

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2) ALLAH replaces it With Something Better!

 

'Bismillah Walhamdulillah Was Salaatu Was Salaam

'ala Rasulillah'.

'As-Salaam Alaikum Wa-Rahmatullahi Wa-Barakatuhu'
'Whoever abandons something for the sake of Allaah, He will replace it for him with something better than it”.

While seeking knowledge, he became very poor and used to rely on charity.

One time, several days passed by and he did not find anything to eat, so he became extremely hungry.

So he came out of his room in Al-Azhar to ask for some scraps of food.

He found an open door from which a pleasant smell of food was coming out of. So he entered the door and found himself in a kitchen with no one around. There he found some tempting food, so he grabbed a spoon and dipped it in, but when he lifted it to his mouth, he held himself back from eating it, since he realized that he had not been given permission to eat from it. So he left it and returned to his room in the dormitory of Al-Azhar, still hungry and starving.

But no less than an hour passed by, when one of his teachers, accompanied by another man, came into his room.

And his teacher said to him:-

‘This noble man came to me seeking a righteous student of knowledge to choose for marrying his daughter, and I have chosen you for him. So rise and come with us to his home where we can complete the marriage contract between you and his daughter and you can become part of his household.’

So Shaikh Ibraaheem struggled to get to his feet, obeying the command of his teacher and went with them. And behold they took him to the very same house he had been to, and which he had entered and dipped the spoon into the food!

So when he sat down, the girl’s father married her to him and the food was brought out.

It was the same food he had put the spoon into before and which he abandoned.

But now he ate from it and said to himself:-

‘I withheld from eating it when I had no permission, but now Allaah has given me this food with permission.’

Afterward, this righteous wife went back with him to Halab, after he had finished his studies. And she bore righteous children for him.”

So this is the fruit of patience and this is the result of having taqwaa, as Allaah says:-

“And whoever has Taqwaa of Allaah,

He will make a way out for him (from hardship), and He will provide for Him from places He never imagined.”

[Surah At-Talaaq: 2-3]

But as for those who are hasty –

those who do not distinguish between the truth and falsehood, seeking after the transitory vanities of this worldly life –

they will never experience anything but grief and sorrow in their hearts, for they will never attain the worldly life nor will they ever achieve Religion.

This is because they forget – or perhaps neglect – the saying of Allaah:-

“Is not Allaah sufficient for His servant?”

[Surah Az-Zumar: 36]

As for those who are patient and firm and who have Taqwaa, they will gain ascendancy in this life and glory and honor with their Lord on the Day of Judgement.

And Allaah says:-

“So give the glad tidings to the patient ones.”

[Surah Al-Baqarah: 155]

And He says:-

“Verily, the patient ones will be given their reward without any reckoning.”

[Surah Az-Zumar: 10]

[Source:-Shaikh Muhammad Raaghib At-Tabbaakh, rahimahullaah, [the great scholar and historian]

Taken from his book-

“I’laam an-Nubalaa bi-Taareekh Halab ash-Shuhabaa” (7/231):-

Author:-

‘Alee Hasan al-Halabee

Source:-

Al-Asaalah Magazine [Issue 31 pg. 60-61.]

 

Compiled, edited and adapted by Khalid Latif