I respectfully disagree with you. I think the Muslims 200 years ago might have taken their Islam for granted a bit, because it wasn't under threat, they were free to practice it every day without hindrance, and they could stand proudly on the shoulders of the great Islamic achievements. Now, when the caliphate is gone and imperialist world powers have stripped historically Muslim countries of their wealth, heritage and dignity, the Muslims have to try to hold on to Islam even more, because its the only anchor that is stopping them getting washed away in the social diseases of our modern age. Muslims have to fight extra hard nowadays to hold onto their Islam, and to keep our tradition alive. But I agree that reactionism towards anti-Islamic movements isn't the right way to practice/perceive Islam; you've got to see Islam for what it originally came for: to bring dignity to humanity when men were burying their daughters alive and worshipping stones. Allah will give us dignity if we obey him, and he will humiliate us if we try to please men, and give them an inch which will turn into a mile.
there's a particular hadith you ought to be familiar with, i take it as a basic assumption that every educated muslim already knows the hadith and understands the context.
Narrated Hudhaifa bin Al-Yaman: The people used to ask Allah's Apostle about good, but I used to ask him about evil for fear that it might overtake me. Once I said, "O Allah's Apostle! We were in ignorance and in evil and Allah has bestowed upon us the present good; will there by any evil after this good?" He said, "Yes." I asked, "Will there be good after that evil?" He said, "Yes, but it would be tained with Dakhan (i.e. Little evil)." I asked, "What will its Dakhan be?" He said, "There will be some people who will lead (people) according to principles other than my tradition. You will see their actions and disapprove of them." I said, "Will there by any evil after that good?" He said, "Yes, there will be some people who will invite others to the doors of Hell, and whoever accepts their invitation to it will be thrown in it (by them)." I said, "O Allah's Apostle! Describe those people to us." He said, "They will belong to us and speak our language" I asked, "What do you order me to do if such a thing should take place in my life?" He said, "Adhere to the group of Muslims and their Chief." I asked, "If there is neither a group (of Muslims) nor a chief (what shall I do)?" He said, "Keep away from all those different sects, even if you had to bite (i.e. eat) the root of a tree, till you meet Allah while you are still in that state." (Book #56, Hadith #803)
ill explain how i understand this hadith
-the biggest proof of collective evil which incurs God's Wrath...is the loss of Jerusalem. That has been true for jews and christians.
now it may happen as it was with the first crusade, that christians took it which implies God favoured them, but in truth they were just the medium of God's punishment on muslims at the time.
- During the period where muslims lost Jerusalem, what happened?
in india there was Sheikh Moinuddin Chishti, in Iraq there was Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani.
these 2 are the 2 most famous and most influential sufi figures. There was a revival of islam but it was different. Just as people accuse Moinuddin Chishti of 'innovating islam' the truth is the sufis had a hikmah that was necessary for the time period/place/context.
This is when the next era of islam began through sufism.
So if you read the hadith..
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Yes, but it would be tained with Dakhan (i.e. Little evil)." I asked, "What will its Dakhan be?" He said, "There will be some people who will lead (people) according to principles other than my tradition. "
hence sufism gets accused of bidah, right? it totally fits.
in the wider context, the prophet clearly said it would be 'good'. The bidah/little evil in the context was perhaps necessary. Since by that point islam had grown on a massive scale and had to be applicable to many people and cultures.
Hence it led to a new islam in india and amogst the turkic people. people with their own traditions/cultures.
obviously over time, the sufi movements got worse, until you get the obvious thing, obvious signs of shirk, due to a poor understanding of theology.
the biggest problem within the sufi system was that the giants of sufism were SYED, decendants of the prophet. Their decendants inherited titles, which is not in line with islamic tradition, rather than titles going to worthy muslims, the sons inherited titles but lacked the qualities of their fathers. Gradually sufism declined until we saw the worst of the worst, our version of pharisees.
-so what happened as a reaction to the worst of sufism?
Wahabiism/salafism..
He said, "Yes, there will be some people who will invite others to the doors of Hell, and whoever accepts their invitation to it will be thrown in it (by them)." I said, "O Allah's Apostle! Describe those people to us." He said, "They will belong to us and speak our language" I asked, "What do you order me to do if such a thing should take place in my life?" He said, "Adhere to the group of Muslims and their Chief.
no doubt this was the wahabi-saudi alliance.
the 'chief' was the ottomon sultan...
but everyone opposed him too.
so
I asked, "If there is neither a group (of Muslims) nor a chief (what shall I do)?" He said, "Keep away from all those different sects, even if you had to bite (i.e. eat) the root of a tree, till you meet Allah while you are still in that state."
in india, it was the beginning of the great divide amongst the sunnis hanafis, you got the Brelwi and Deobandi movements.
the guy running the brelwi school was imam raza khan, an apologist and yes man for his syed masters..and he pushed a system of sufism via brelwi-ism that effectively became the most dumbest version of blatant shirk
through his own shit understanding of islam. the guy was a real fanatic with the fatwas and takfir too.
the further salafism has been pushed, the further the brelwis and deobandis have decended.
the difference between brelwi and deobandi is this..
the brelwis believed in a passive, Jeremiah style response to colonialism..
they thought 'why should we fight to rid india of european colonialists, when it is a hindu majority country whilst the colonialists are christian? better to be under christians than hindus'
the deobandi camp responded with 'wow they are british puppets and pro-christian'
(see the stupidity?)
so the deobandis said 'we need to fight jihad against britain'
they did and they lost, got massacred, which the brelwis knew of..
and the problem with that was it gave hindus (who never fking fought, you get this? they were waiting for muslims and sikhs to weaken whilst the british rewarded the hindus).
deobandis got powerful enough and held higher offices in the muslim army (of what was british india at the time). however honest their intentions, their push for war against britian hurt muslims further, but still it made muslims strong enough to be able to fight for their own state later down the line, hence the creation of pakistan.
the other problem, where the brelwis were actually right was that deobandis were def influenced by wahabism and hence it wasnt long before pakistan sank into saudi influence via general zia ul haq and the hudood ordinances.
zia ul haq was that guy who fought in Black september leading the jordanian royal army against the palestinian uprising...because of zia, thousands of palestinians were butchered. his reward was the saudi zionists funded his takeover of pakistan before he turned it into an absolute shithole
and the further deobandi agendas were pushed, the worst the brelwis got when they were sidelined
so the way i see it, the prophet SAW was obv right to warn us against them ALL 'all those sects'.
you had nationalist agendas influencing sects..you had greedy disgusting syeds using fake sufi ideas to elevate their own status..
and the only thing holding muslims together was this collective seige mentality by building antagonism with jews and hindus
and of course jews and hindus have played their part
my take is this is all the handiwork of iblees...simple
all sides are manipulated through fear and hatred. muslims are not innocent at all in the hate game.
muslims have gotten so bad they've even rewrote the Quran via translations/interpretations by wording them in such a way that really pushes our buttons and fits into those collective narratives
ive been observing and reading islamic material from all sides, reading the Quran and hadith, most of my life...ive been through the sectarian phase and seen that it was nothing but fitna and not one group has any connection to God or truth, they are all liars.
every single sect has higher ups who are directly working for iblees.
this is no exaggeration...i saw it and got harmed for it..
it's like this..
its as basic and simple and derpedy fking derp as this
these fools started astral projecting..and without knowledge of metaphysics (as the prophet said, because of IGNORANCE) they thought they were in jannat.
the satanic entities came to them in the forms of glorious saintly figures...and they followed them...and were 'worked on' for a while until they were completely on the other side.
groups were formed, they were given positions of influence in the sects...
and collectively whenever and wherever any good muslim person/people/group sprang up...these people targeted them by following iblees's commands. the only ones left alone who arent part of them directly, are the ones who enable them..
ive seen many imams/sheikhs who know fully what these guys are doing but feign ignorance to save their own neck. i have no respect for those ones either.
lucky for me..i have this on my mind when it comes to those people as a whole
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long...
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i may diss christians a lot on here lmfao...and its justified
but when it came to evil within islam, it wasnt just the prophet SAW's advice in hadith like the one i shared, it was the Gospel and contexts within that i could relate to our time through...and come to an understanding of what we're truely dealing with.
read the last part of the hadith again and think of why on earth the prophet SAW would speak in such a heavy way. im not over exaggerating in what i say, it's exactly why the prophet would actually insist
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there will be some people who will invite others to the doors of Hell, and whoever accepts their invitation to it will be thrown in it (by them)."
"Keep away from all those different sects, even if you had to bite (i.e. eat) the root of a tree, till you meet Allah while you are still in that state."
this is serious stuff bro.