The Creation Plan of God
Discovery of Islam
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It follows that whenever a reformer calls Muslims
back to their duties concerning
da’wah
and
sabr
, they
become antagonistic to such a call, because they
have become conditioned to finding it alien to their
thinking.
THE OBSESSION WITH HISTORICAL GLORY
As mentioned above, one of the major reasons for
the original Islam becoming an alien religion among
the Muslims is that for latter day generations the
basis for the Islamic ethos became the later history
of Islam instead of the Qur’an and Sunnah. Muslims
found their glorious history far more attractive than
the Qur’an and Sunnat. For them they were just sets
of words. Their history, on the contrary, gave them
an immense sense of pride, as it was full of imperial
grandeur and conquests. Although they continued
to pay lip service to the Qur’an by reciting it, they
were, in fact, lost in the glories of Islamic history.
Gradually they came to associate themselves and
Islam with this grand history: instead of the Qur’an
and Sunnah, history became their chief source of
inspiration.
