My fellow Muslims, here is the blueprint for true success in the world!

My dear concerned Muslims. There is something that needs to hit home in us if we really want to bring about positive change in the world of Islam, and then the whole world. In fact that are a couple of things that need to hit home.

One, we Muslims need to go back to our religion, the moral aspects of it, the obedience to Allah and Rasulallah (SAW) aspect of it and the acts of worship both compulsory and voluntary. Our main aim should be to please Allah and become as high in His sight as possible. To become the best human beings and make Him proud. If we do not do this, He will not give us victory in every aspect of the word 'victory'. And we need Him to get victory. We need Him to bring prosperity to Muslims, in fact the whole of humanity. So we need to go back to our religion and make Him happy.

Two, all Muslims of the world including all patriotic/islamic groups need to unite. Making separate groups is not going to bring any progress. Im going to give u an example from our Islamic history to illustrate this point. After Rasulallah (SAW) established the system of governance called Khilafah in Arabia, for the next 50-100 years or so the Muslims were able to expand that Khilafah to include Yemen, Oman, Syria, Jordan, Jerusalem, Lebanon, Beirut, the UAE, Iraq, Iran, Egypt, the whole of North Africa. Can u believe how huge an area it becomes when u include all these countries?!? Of course we didnt have most of these names at tht time, considering Syria (Shaam) include present day Syria, Jerusalem/Israel, Lebanon, Beirut and Jordan! And there was no UAE. Anyways, the extremely vital points tht i want to highlight here r this:

1. Look at the amount of land the Muslims had conquered!

2. The time they took to conquer all this land was extremely little. No empire in the history of mankind has ever conquered such a huge piece of land in THIS short a time.

3. In just 2-3 years, and this is the most interesting part of all, the Muslims under Hazrat Khalid Bin Waleed (RA) and Abu Ubaidah Bin Jarrah (RA) had effectively defeated the Persian and Roman empires and had reduced them to very small amount of land. The Romans had lost the whole of Syria (of tht time) and the Persians the whole of Iraq and then later Iran too. The Romans now occupied just Turkey (at tht time called Asia Minor or Anatolia) and their home in Italy, and the Persians just Iran and central Asian states like Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkemenistan etc. Can u imagine, just 2-3 YEARS! Also, Muslims were always 2-3 times less in number than their oppositions, ALWAYS! Also, their weapons were always inferior.

Then what happened? Well the rate of expansion of the Islamic empire decreased after Hazrat Umar (RA) passed away for some time, but it increased again in the time of the 10th Khalifa, Waleed Bin Abd al-Malik, under whom Hajjaj Bin Yousaf (his military second in command u cud say) oversaw the expansion of Islam in regions such as Afghanistan, Spain (Tariq Bin Ziyad), Hindustan (Muhammad Bin Qasim entered for the first time via Sindh) and Central Asian states. But after Hajjaj Bin Yousaf, the rate of expansion decreased again. The we see an era in which Muslims had 3 Khilafats at a single time, even though there are several authentic hadises which tell us tht it is absolutely haram (forbidden) to have more than one Khilafats in Islam at one time! Im referring to the Abbasid khilafat in Baghdad, Andalusia in the Iberian peninsula ie Spain and Portugal and Fatimid Khilafat in Egypt. Why do u think this development took place?

Here im going to make my point which i wanted to make by giving this long example from our own history. We shined and our religion shined and Allah's name was glorified during Rasulallah (SAW)'s time and 50-100 years afterwards during the time of the Khulafa-i-Rashideen and some time after tht, but we and our religion declined during the wars that Muslims fought AMONGST THEMSELVES during Hazrat ali (RA)'s time and afterwards, and then we rose wen Muslims united at the time of Waleed Bin Abd al-Malik and hence our expansions grew and Islam was able to spread effectively. But then we suffered again wen we started fighting against each other and destroyed the unity that had struck fear and awe in the hearts of the Romans and Persians before. We made 3 Khilafats because we cudnt stop our bickering! Do u know what happened once we took this path? Spain became divided in like 14 provinces, each with its own 'Muslim' ruler, and they wud call upon the Christian kings of the south (in Africa) to help them in fighting each other!!! So what happened then? What was the result of this disunity in the ummah? The Non-Muslims took this as an opportunity and attacked the Muslims on two fronts, the Romans attacked via Anatolia at the Iranian lands and the French attacked at the Iberian peninsula. Thankfully we still had 2 dignified Muslim leaders in these regions who held back these attacks so effectively that as a result the Romans were annihilated in the Asia Minor region (modern day Turkey) except Constantinople (Istanbul) and the French comprehensively beaten and the Iberian peninsula protected for the next 400 years! Alp Arsalan did it on the Iranian front and Yusuf Bin Tashfeen in the Iberian peninsula. Fast forward a couple of years and you see these moments of unity and high religious understanding in the ummah eventually causing the whitewash of the great Roman and Persian empires so effectively that we dont see a mention or trace of them anywhere in the world! Thts wht we r capable of wen we r united and when we have Allah dearer to us than our personal feuds and jealousies with our Muslim brethren. But wen we divide and when we leave our religion, the enemies of Islam find an opportunity to attack us just like the Romans and French did, just like the Crusaders did very soon afterwards and just like the Americans and the entire Europe is doing right now! The greatest proof of this fact that I've just stated is the complete ignorance in the world today regarding the great Islamic empire that had existed in this world for a good 1300 years! Even in the Muslim societies you don't hear anything about our empire  and the great service it gave to the world. Many inventions of great Muslim scientists were key to the progress of science tht we see today. We invented the camera, algebra, trigonometry, clocks, atlas, optics, great astronomical discoveries and many many other amazing things on the shoulders of which the world of science stands today. But the names of those great scientists are either never mentioned or are regarded as inferior to the Newtons, the Bohrs, the Einsteins and all these western scientists who would not have made the progress that they made had it not been for their Muslim predecessors. This is what disgrace is like!

Moral of the story: Wen we r united, and wen we stick to our religion, then a mere 40,000 of our technologically inferior army can easily annihilate a far superior Roman army of 2.5 lakh in the Battle of Yarmuk, our 60 can trouble 6000 of the Arab Christians who had sided with the Romans in tht battle, our mere 25,000 under Mahmud Ghaznvi can easily whitewash a Hindu heap of 2 lakhs, n not just once, MANY TIMES! Understand our strength my fellow Muslims. Our strength, as our own history teaches us, lies in our unity and our ability to find common ground with all other Muslims regardless of their beliefs, ethnicity, language, colour and other characteristics which have always been used to divide man by the NON-muslims. And it also very vitally lies in our ability to stick firmly with our religion and religious values, in other words, our ability to hold tightly to the rope of Allah. So my honest advice to u right now is not to fight amongst one another over any issue, be it religious or non-religious. Do not make a separate group/movement for the welfare of the Muslims and/or your country, but instead try to unite all the other islamic/patriotic groups that you find either on the net (eg facebook) or on the streets. There is Jamiat, Tableeghi Jamat, Tanzeem-e-Islami, Hizb-ul-Tehrir, PKKH, Zaid Hamid's movement, Azme Ale Shan, Pakistan First, People's Action Movement, Youth's Initiative, to name a few. I hope my message got well delivered. :) Unite, join ur group with all the others, forgive n forget all differences, n u will surely achieve success. Allah promises u success in the Quran if u unite n hold religion dear to u.

To Non-Muslims: I feel that if Non-Muslims will read this article of mine, there is one distinct question that might come in their minds. So I'll answer it for them in case it does come up. :) You might be thinking that it seems like Islam was spread just like Christianity was by the Romans/Byzantines, the British and then the Americans, ie by colonial invasions. Well, that is not the case. Accurate study of history shows that Muslim armies used to attack Non-Muslim 'armies' and 'governments', not their civilians or even animals and trees. In colonialism, the civilians are subjected to immense torture, women raped, men women and children murdered, lands snatched, natural resources stolen, trees and pastures razed and the conquered are ruled with an iron fist. THIS is what the Romans, Persians, British, Americans and all other colonial powers of history used to do. But these things were never done by the Muslims. That's point number one. Point number two is that the reason they would attack Non-Muslim armies and governments and strive to topple them and replace them with their own was because Non-Muslim governments have always been ruthless towards their populations, and this is a fact that has been repeated again and again in history. And Muslims were honorable, just, dignified leaders whose entrance into foreign lands was always welcomed by the local populations. For example when they entered Egypt, which was a colony of the Romans, as they were defeating the Roman garrisons one by one, their exemplary character towards the local population would cause the natives (Coptic Christians btw!) to actually start helping them against their own rulers. Which invading army has ever been helped by the local population ever in history? :)

The Muslims would invade, topple the local government and military, and set up a true humanitarian form of government which would benefit the people. Khilafah was a blessing for HUMANITY, not just the Muslims. The following speech of the first Caliph of Islam, Hazrat Abu Bakr (RA), to the armies that he sent to Syria is worth mentioning here:

"Stop, O people, that I may give you ten rules for your guidance in the battlefield. Do not commit treachery or deviate from the right path. You must not mutilate dead bodies. Neither kill a child, nor a woman, nor an aged man. Bring no harm to the trees, nor burn them with fire, especially those which are fruitful. Slay not any of the enemy's flock, save for your food. You are likely to pass by people who have devoted their lives to monastic services; leave them alone."

The following hadises (sayings) of the Prophet (SAWW) are relevant here:

"You are neither hard-hearted nor of fierce character, nor one who shouts in the markets. You do not return evil for evil, but excuse and forgive." - Bukhari, Volume 6, Book 60, Number 362

"Do not kill any old person, any child or any woman" (Abu Dawud).

"Do not kill the monks in monasteries" or "Do not kill the people who are sitting in places of worship" (Musnad of Ibn Hanbal).

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