Why Muslims became degraded after the demise of Prophet Muhammad saw? A question that is all Muslims should ask. We have to know the reasons why Muslims have become degraded and once we know the reasons then only it would be easier for us to find the medicine. What is the medicine to be implemented in order to cure the problem of Muslims? As for an example a patient is presenting to a doctor a series of symptoms and after analyzing the symptoms, the doctor concludes that a disease has infected the patient. In order to cure the disease and to eliminate the symptoms the doctors need to know the causes of the diseases. Once the doctor knows the causes of the diseases, only then a correct medicine could be given to the patient and with the permission of Allah, the patient could be cured from the disease. Doctors cannot cure a disease unless the doctors know the causes of that disease. However, there are diseases that doctors could not find medicines to cure. Why doctors could not find medicines to cure the diseases? Medicines to cure the diseases could not be found because the causes of the disease are still unknown.
All of us know that diseases known as diabetic and hypertension have no cure and the medicines given to patients are meant only to eliminate the symptoms, and not to cure the diseases. What causes diabetic and hypertension? Germs or bacteria do not causes diabetic or hypertension. Doctors do not prescribe antibiotics to patient with diabetic and hypertension because there are no germs involved in the causes of the diseases. What causes patients to have diabetic and hypertension? Hypertension and diabetic is not caused by germs or bacteria but by wrong lifestyle. In order to cure diabetic and hypertension doctors need to convince patients to change their wrong lifestyle. The question is how to cure the wrong lifestyle? Wrong lifestyle can be cured by treating the patient’s mindset and belief. How to treat the patient’s mindset and belief. Patient mindset and belief can be treated using the self-talk therapy. How to treat the body which has the disease? Because of wrong lifestyle, it causes stress to the body and the first part of the body affected by stress is the bowel and the stomach. Why do we treat the bowel first when we want to cure diseases? Bowel is treated first because the health of the bowel affected the quality of blood. When the bowel health is poor, it causes blood to have poor quality. When blood running in the body is of poor quality, it causes diseases.
With stress, our body also looses many minerals and vitamins and couple with a poor quality of blood can causes our body tissues to become inflamed and finally lead to the occurrence of diseases. In summary, we can conclude that the cause of diseases is wrong lifestyle and not germs or invisible creations of Allah. A wrong lifestyle lead to our body undergoes stress, which lead to poor digestion and poor bowel movement. A poor bowel movement and poor digestion lead to poor blood quality, which lead to inflammation of tissues and finally lead to the occurrences of many diseases in our body. When we cannot understand the reason why we have diseases, we will not be able to find the correct treatment of our diseases. We can equate a Muslim community to a body, which has many diseases. When a body has many diseases, it has many symptoms. We should not treat the symptoms but we should treat the diseases that cause the symptoms. Once the diseases are cured, all the symptoms will automatically disappear.
Many Muslims scholars are trying to cure the symptoms of the diseases that had infected the Muslims by giving continuous lectures about the symptoms in the mosques or elsewhere. Millions of lectures are given to the Muslims in the whole world about the symptoms of the diseases but the symptoms remain with the Muslims. Muslims scholars are only preachers and not doctors and they do not understand how diseases and symptoms of diseases can be cured. Only lectures about the symptoms of the diseases, without giving medicines to the patients, neither symptoms nor the diseases can be cured. Million of lectures on symptoms of the diseases will not cure the diseases and the symptoms will forever remain with the Muslims. What medicines should be given to the Muslims? The patient must take all medicines in a specific manner as advised by the doctors or otherwise the medicines would not have any effect on the body and the diseases would not be cured. We will not be able to find the medicine unless we know exactly and precisely the diseases that has infected the Muslims. What are the diseases that have infected the Muslims? How are Muslims infected with the disease? What are the medicines that will cure the disease? How we can make the Muslims to take the medicine? With the grace of Allah, when Muslims take the medicines, the diseases will be cured and the symptoms will disappear.
In my opinion, the diseases that had infected the Muslims, which had made the Muslims to become weak and ineffective, are the diseases of the love of power and wealth. Because of these diseases, another disease comes to the Muslims, the disease of not loving Allah and the orders of Allah. Because of this disease comes another disease, the disease of disobedience to the orders of Allah. Among all the orders of Allah, the first order of Allah, which is to recite the Great Kalimah and to fulfill the obligation associated with the recitation of the Great Kalimah, is the first to be neglected by the Muslims. The Muslims neglected the order not long after the demise of Prophet Muhammad saw. All the orders of Allah are medicines to the soul, mind and body. The first order of Allah is the greatest medicine that will curethe greatest diseases, the love of power and wealth. Once taken by the Muslims the disease would not be able to infect the Muslims and all other diseases would not also come to the Muslims. Once the Muslims do not take the greatest medicine, Muslims will start to have all other diseases and Muslims will start to degenerate. The first symptom of the disease is, Muslims is deprived from the understanding of the Quran. Muslims started to understand that the first order of Allah is only the recitation of the Great Kalimah once in a lifetime and there is no obligation or responsibility associated with the recitation of the Great Kalimah. CLICK
Muslims start to become degraded when Muslims start not to understand about the first order of Allah. The first order of Allah is to recite the Great Kalimah (Kalimah Syahadah) “I bear witness there is no God except Allah and I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah”.There is an obligation or responsibility associated with the recitation of the Great Kalimah and the obligation is to invite peoples to good and to forbid peoples from evils (amar makruf nahi mungkar). Since thousands of years, Muslims understand the first order of Allah as only to recite of the Great Kalimah once in a lifetime. Other than reciting the Great Kalimah, once in a lifetime, there is no obligation or responsibility associated with the recitation of the Great Kalimah. Muslim seems to understand that the first order of Allah is the easiest order to be performed by all Muslims. It is simpler and easier to perform when compare to solat which is the second order of Allah. It is simpler and easier to perform even when compare to all other orders of Allah. Other than reciting the Kalimah, there no other work associated with the recitation of the Great Kalimah. The time taken to recite the Great Kalimah is not even one minutes. Many Muslims including their scholars have the understanding that by reciting the Great Kalimah, only once in a lifetime will make a person to become a believer (beriman). It is easier to understand that the recitation of the Great Kalimah carry a responsibility, when we compare the recitation of the Great Kalimah with the recitation of Kalimah Nikah (solemn oaths in marriage ceremonies).
When a person recite the Great Kalimah (Kalimah Syahadah), its means that person has recognized Allah as his or her only God and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah, and when a person recite Kalimah Nikah it means, the man has recognized the woman as his wife. The time taken to recite the Kalimah Nikah is not even one minute but with the recitation of the Kalimah Nikah there is responsibility that the man needs to carry towards the woman until the day she cease to be his wife. Marriage is not only to recite the Kalimah Nikah in less than one minute but with the recitation of the Kalimah Nikah there is a responsibility to be performed by the man towards the woman, as long as the woman remain to be his wife. What is the responsibility of the man towards the woman whom he regards as his wife? The man has the responsibility to fulfill all her needs to the best of his ability and including the needs of all the children that she gives birth to as a result of his association with the woman. Similarly, when a person recites the Great Kalimah, it means there is a responsibility that the person needs to perform towards Allah. What is the responsibility? The responsibility is to call all men who are the best creation of Allah, to Allah and to obey all the orders of Allah. What Allah wants us to do is not the same as what our wife wants us to do. When we fulfill the needs of our wife then we have fulfill our obligation towards our wife.When we call men toward Allah and the orders of Allah then we have fulfill our obligation toward Allah and we have fulfilled the obligation associated with the recitation of the Great Kalimah
All the Islamic scholars in the world understand that the first order of Allah is only the recitation of the Great Kalimah and there is no obligation associated with the recitation of the Great Kalimah. Since thousand of years ago all the Muslim scholars wrote in their Islamic book and preach to the Muslims, that the first pillars of Islam or Rukun Islam is only the recitation of the Great Kalimah. What the Muslim scholars teach us about Islam, all the Muslims in the world follow. Because of this, all the Muslims have the same understanding as their Muslim scholars. Because the Muslim scholars themselves do not understand that there is an obligation associated with the recitation of the Great Kalimah, all the common Muslims follow their scholars. Both the scholars and the Muslims do not understand that there is an obligation associated with the recitation of the Great Kalimah. Muslims in all over the world was in total darkness because there is none in the world who had the correct understanding of the Quran. Why all the Muslims including their scholars in the world do not understand the Quran? We may think that this is not possible. We know that there are many renowned Muslim scholars throughout history .We may ask the question; how could such a great Muslim scholars as Imam Ghazali and many others do not know that with the recitation of the Great Kalimah there is an obligation to be performed by the Muslims. What is the truth, until today no Muslims in the world understand, with the recitatation of the Great Kalimah, there is an obligation to be performed by Muslims.
What is the obligation associated with the recitation of the Great Kalimah? A person needs to invite peoples to good and forbid peoples from evils (amar makruf nahi mungkar). What is good? to recite the Great Kalimah; I bear witness there is no God except Allah and I bear witness Muhammad is the Prophet of Allah. What is an evil? Not to recite the Great Kalimah.
What is good done by those who have recited the Great Kalimah?Inviting peoples to good and forbidding peoples from evils. What is evil to those who have recited the Great Kalimah? Not inviting peoples to good and forbidding peoples from evil. Nowadays this is not what is understood and practiced by all the Muslims in the whole world. When Muslims denied the obligation associated with the recitation of the Great Kalimah, Allah will deprived the Muslims including their scholars from the understanding of the Quran. When Muslims do not perform the obligation associated with the recitation of the Great Kalimah, Allah would not gives the Muslims the benefits associated with the Kalimah, which are; Allah would not give calamities to the Muslims and there will be no unhappiness in the heart of Muslims.
What has happened to the Muslims now? Muslims in all over the world are in various forms of calamities. Many Muslims are in great stress and have psychiatric problems. What has happened to the Muslims in the world now? Who has sent all the calamities to the Muslims? There is no one who can sent calamities to the Muslims but Allah. Why Allah sents calamities to the Muslims? Why the prayers (doa) of the Muslims are not granted by Allah? Why when Muslims are asking help from Allah, Allah is not helping the Muslims? Why Allah is not helping the Muslims against their enemies? Why Allah gives to the Muslims, tyrants and dictators to rule them? Allah is doing this to Muslims, because Muslims are denying the responsibility associated with the recitation of the Great Kalimah. Muslims are not performing the responsibility associated with the first order of Allah. What is the hukum of this order? It is obligatory (fardu ain) to all Muslims, males or females to do it individually andit is obligatory (fardu Kifayah) to some Muslims males in any Muslims locality to do it collectively. Now, what has happen to this order of Allah? Since a very long time ago, this order of Allah has died or vanished from the lives of Muslims. Only during the times of the Prophet Muhammad saw, this great order of Allah is alived and is done by Muslims either individually and collectively.
After the demise of Prophet Muhammad saw, wealth and power started to come to the Muslims. Muslims during the time of Abu Bakar r.a, Umar r.a and Uthman r.a had conquered many countries and wealth and new territories were pouring to the Muslims. The love of wealth started to enter into the hearts of Muslims. All non-Muslims living in the newly conquered territories need to pay money to the Muslims. Muslims started to love money and wealth and do notlove to invite the non-Muslims to become Muslims. Muslims will no longer able to obtain money from the non-Muslims when the non-Muslims become Muslims. The loves of obeying the orders of Allah start to disappear from the heart of the Muslims when Muslims start to love wealth. During this time the order of doing the work of enjoining good and forbidding the evils (amar makruf nahi mungkar), collectively ( secara berjemaah)start to disappear from the lives of the Muslims. When the work of enjoining good and forbidding evils done collectively starts to disappear, the work of enjoining good and forbidding evils done individually (secara individu) also disappear from the lives of the Muslims. Finally the work of enjoining good and forbidding evils disappear totally either done individually or collectively in the lives of Muslims in all over the world.
When do Muslims started to degenerate? Muslims started to degenerate, the day when Muslims started to ignore the work of enjoining good and forbidding evils done collectively. When Muslims started to ignore the work of enjoining good and forbidding evils done collectively, the help of Allah is no longer with the Muslims and Allah is no longer listening to the prayers (doa) of the Muslims and Allah is no longer helping the Muslims against their enemies. The work of Prophet Muhammad saw or the work of enjoining good and forbidding evil should be done by the umat of Prophet Muhammad saw collectively. When Muslims is doing the work of enjoining good and forbidding evils collectively, then it is the same as if Prophet Muhammad saw is still alive with the Muslims. When Prophet Muhammad saw is alive with the Muslims the help of Allah is always with the Muslims and no calamities will ever fall on the Muslims. When the work of enjoining good and forbidding evils, done collectively disappear from the Muslims as if the Prophet Muhammad saw is no longer living with the Muslims. When Prophet Muhammad is no longer living with the Muslims the help of Allah is no longer with the Muslims. In the Quran, Allah says in the approximate meaning; “Oh Muhammad, as long as you are with them, and they seek repentance, I will not punish them.” Al-Anfal: 33
Prof Dr Nasoha Saabin
July 2012
Integrative Holistic Wellness Centre