Yesterday I got a mail from a Brother of Mine saying WHY WE Muslims Fail and why are Jews Successful. He had done an appreciable thesis in the article saying Jews are Nobel Prize Winners through 100 years and US has many Universities and Muslim World has very few and so on... It was a appreciable work. But my Dear Brothers and Sisters this is not the Case.In Which University did the Sahaba(May Allah be Pleased With Them) graduate from that the Conquered the World over. Which Nobel Prize did they win. Alas we have forgotten the PATH WHICH GIVES US SUCCESS and we are looking for success in all the Wrong places(Completely Wrong Places).
This is not my Word.This is proved by the Letter Which THE LEGEND OF ISLAM -- UMAR BIN AL-KHATTAB wrote to the Commander of the Army. These are the Words Which should be Inscribed in the Wall out of GOLD.
When Umar bin Al-Khattab (RA) despatched the army of Saad bin Abi Waqqas (RA) to the Battle of Al-Qadisiyyah, he advised him: “Fear your sins more than you fear the enemy as your sins are more dangerous to you than your enemy. We Muslims are only victorious over our enemy because their sins outnumber ours, not for any other reason. If our sins were equal to those of our enemy, then they would defeat us due to their superior numbers and resources.”
“So do not weaken and do not grieve, for you will indeed be superior if you are truly believers.”
[Al-Quran 3:139]
Victory and defeat, gains and losses, and successes and setbacks are not decided by money, resources, numbers or skills. Rather, they are decided by the balance of obedience and disobedience of Allah The Exalted. The more we obey Allah, both individually and collectively, the more we hasten His Victory. The more we disobey Allah, the more we delay the arrival of His Victory. One Muslim’s sins can delay the victory for everyone. It is very easy to blame Bush and Blair, the ‘West’, the ‘kuffar’ or simply ‘them’ for all our woes and worries. But it is not so easy to look in the mirror and point the finger at ourselves.
Every sin we commit delays the arrival of Allah’s Victory. Every Salah we delay extends the incarceration of a captive at Guantanamo Bay. Every drug we take allows another Quran to be flushed down the toilet. Every hour we waste watching TV allows another Muslim to be kidnapped and extradited into the hands of savage beasts. Every time we gaze at something forbidden, we place an obstacle in the path of Allah’s Victory. A sin is not a ‘private matter between me and Allah’ but one sin can make the difference between victory and defeat. Every sin we commit is one more reason why Allah should not grant us relief, safety and victory.
Allah has made us a Promise in the aforementioned verse: “So do not weaken and do not grieve, for you will indeed be superior if you are truly believers.” He promises us relief, assistance, superiority and victory on the condition that we are true believers. If we suffer defeats today then it does not mean that Allah’s Promise is false. Instead, the question we must ask ourselves is: are we truly believers?
Jazaak Allahu Khair.
Your Brother In Islam,
Abdullah Khan.
Abdullah Khan explaining why Muslims fail...
Saturday, 29 Jamadil Akhir 1431
Saturday, 12 June 2010 11:07Assalamu alaikum dear Islamunity users,
Islamunity is lucky enough to receive a letter from a striving Muslim; unidentified among the crowd. Lets see what he says...
Assalamu Alaikum,Yesterday I got a mail from a Brother of Mine saying WHY WE Muslims Fail and why are Jews Successful. He had done an appreciable thesis in the article saying Jews are Nobel Prize Winners through 100 years and US has many Universities and Muslim World has very few and so on... It was a appreciable work. But my Dear Brothers and Sisters this is not the Case.In Which University did the Sahaba(May Allah be Pleased With Them) graduate from that the Conquered the World over. Which Nobel Prize did they win. Alas we have forgotten the PATH WHICH GIVES US SUCCESS and we are looking for success in all the Wrong places(Completely Wrong Places).
This is not my Word.This is proved by the Letter Which THE LEGEND OF ISLAM -- UMAR BIN AL-KHATTAB wrote to the Commander of the Army. These are the Words Which should be Inscribed in the Wall out of GOLD.
When Umar bin Al-Khattab (RA) despatched the army of Saad bin Abi Waqqas (RA) to the Battle of Al-Qadisiyyah, he advised him: “Fear your sins more than you fear the enemy as your sins are more dangerous to you than your enemy. We Muslims are only victorious over our enemy because their sins outnumber ours, not for any other reason. If our sins were equal to those of our enemy, then they would defeat us due to their superior numbers and resources.”
“So do not weaken and do not grieve, for you will indeed be superior if you are truly believers.”
[Al-Quran 3:139]
Victory and defeat, gains and losses, and successes and setbacks are not decided by money, resources, numbers or skills. Rather, they are decided by the balance of obedience and disobedience of Allah The Exalted. The more we obey Allah, both individually and collectively, the more we hasten His Victory. The more we disobey Allah, the more we delay the arrival of His Victory. One Muslim’s sins can delay the victory for everyone. It is very easy to blame Bush and Blair, the ‘West’, the ‘kuffar’ or simply ‘them’ for all our woes and worries. But it is not so easy to look in the mirror and point the finger at ourselves.
Every sin we commit delays the arrival of Allah’s Victory. Every Salah we delay extends the incarceration of a captive at Guantanamo Bay. Every drug we take allows another Quran to be flushed down the toilet. Every hour we waste watching TV allows another Muslim to be kidnapped and extradited into the hands of savage beasts. Every time we gaze at something forbidden, we place an obstacle in the path of Allah’s Victory. A sin is not a ‘private matter between me and Allah’ but one sin can make the difference between victory and defeat. Every sin we commit is one more reason why Allah should not grant us relief, safety and victory.
Allah has made us a Promise in the aforementioned verse: “So do not weaken and do not grieve, for you will indeed be superior if you are truly believers.” He promises us relief, assistance, superiority and victory on the condition that we are true believers. If we suffer defeats today then it does not mean that Allah’s Promise is false. Instead, the question we must ask ourselves is: are we truly believers?
Jazaak Allahu Khair.
Your Brother In Islam,
Abdullah Khan.
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