Islamic Sects the death of Islam
When Muhammed (SAW) was asked about sects in Christianity He advised that there would be more sects in Islam than in Christianity. The number is really irrelevant as He was responding to the number that He was question on. It could have been 1, 100 or 1000 and the answer would have been the same. The point to this is that Muhammed (SAW) was fully aware that his beloved Islamic religion would degenerate into the same sectarian divisions and violence of the Christian religion. He stated that this degeneration would actually be greater in Islam.
Jesus was a Jew. This is a fact pure and simple. His mission on earth was never to start a new religion. He came as prophet to the Jews to correct the failings of the Jews. He never at any time started a new region ie Christianity. He lived his life as a devout Jew, went to the synagogue and participated in Jewish religious practices. After the departure of Jesus his disciples remained true to the teachings of Jesus. They went to the synagogue and practiced their religions as true Jews. Neither Jesus nor his disciples started Christianity it was a later sectarian invention.
As a prophet Muhammed (SAW) was given the task of returning all religion to the true path that is Islam. During his life he took Islam across the middle East and into Egypt. This formed the great Islamic nation. It was not long after his death that Islam began degenerating into sectarianism.
At one time sectarian violence and divisions became so impossible it became necessary for Ayesha to raise an army of Muslims who were still faithful to the original teachings of Muhammed (SAW). It took her leadership to defeat these breakaway sects and then to re-establish the original Islam. Ayesha and the remaining companions of the prophet collected all authentic pages of the Qur'an and wrote all Hadith that they knew to be authentic. After this work was completed all non authentic writings that had been invented by the various sects were collected and destroyed.
Why do sects start in religion? The answer to this is fairly simple. One charismatic person who thinks he has more right to power than those who are there. If this person can raise a large enough following they eventually get to the stage that they have an army of followers and can challenge the established ruling system. If they are killed in the inevitable wars that follow they become martyrs to the members of their sect. If they win in the wars they then set about the total destruction of the sect that they have defeated. In either case the sectarian violence and hatreds continue and in most cases increase like a festering boil.
As a revert to Islam I was not born into any particular sect nor was I indoctrinated by the teachings of a sect to believe that my sect was the only true sect and that all others are wrong.
I can have a more straight forward belief. It is my belief that all sects are wrong. There is only one prophet in Islam and that is Muhammed (SAW). AS Muhammed (SAW) stated He is the last prophet and all those who claim to be prophets are false prophets. There is only one true Islam and that is the Qur'an and Hadith. Outside of this true all sects are false.
I have previously written a section about my thoughts with regards to Sharia law. Here I will just make the statement that Sharia is written by men from particular sects and is used to prove that their particular sect is correct. Sharia is written by man to prove that he is right whereas the Qur'an is the word of Allah (SWT). I think that I will continue to read the Qur'an and try to live my life by what I read in the Qur'an.
Islam is presently a set of fractured nations mostly ruled by despotic people who will stop at nothing to protect their grip on power. When there is a change in the rulers the only things that change are the names of the rulers.
Take a quick look at what is happening in the Islamic world. Sects killing each other in the name of Islam. Suicide bombers killing men, women and children and using the name of Allah (SWT) to justify their evil. The entire population of towns are murdered. With all the sectarian hatred and destruction it is no wonder that the mighty Islamic empire established by Muhammed (SAW) ceased to exist over a thousand years ago.
700,000 dead in Iraq. A huge majority of the dead are not victims of war. They are Iraqis murdered by Iraqis in sectarian violence. What happens if Bush succeeds in his ultimate goal of invading Iran. All the other Islamic countries will do nothing and there will be another sectarian bloodbath in Iran. If Obama becomes president he has already stated his intention of sending troops into Pakistan to fight terrorism. What will Islamic countries do? If Iran is still around it will say thank Allah (SWT) that it wasn't us. The rest will protest while hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis will murder each other in Sectarian violence.
Since I reverted to Islam I have constantly been told how there will be this great mythical Islamic nation in the future. What a joke. How is it possible to make anything when each sect wants to murder everyone else in preference to talking. I think that the direct intervention of Allah (SWT) is the only possible way to stop this sectarian stupidity.
If any person has the answer to my questions I will be happy to hear from them. I am not interested in knowing why your sect is the right one and all others are wrong as I believe that all sects are wrong and that includes yours.
My answer is for all Muslims to realise the fallacy of their sect and return to the true Islamic teachings of Muhammed (SAW) as laid down in the Qur'an and Hadith. There are two paths here. One is to stick with the sects that are destroying Islam with their hatred and violent struggles for power or to go back to the one true Islam. Even the Qur'an states that there is only one true path. Which one will you follow?
The major problem with trying to find the true Islam is that you will need to read the Qur'an and Hadith in a language that you understand and this is something that 95% of Muslims have never done even though the Qur'an demands that we do so. If you have not read the Qur'an in in your own language then you are following the religion of your forefathers which is something else that the Qur'an says is wrong.