A Problems facing in the Muslim World

Abstract

"Which in your opinion, are the major problems of the Muslim world, the problems upon which the attention of the workers of Islam should be focused, and to the solution of which they should devote all, or the greater part of, their endeavors?" This was my question to my friend who has been working for Islam, for the last thirty years. For a while he remained silent and then replied: "I Consider three problems to be responsible for the disastrous state of Affairs in the Muslim world; first, the failure to distinguish between what God laid down in His Book and the Tradition of His Prophet, and the elaborations derived there from by our legists: second, the plight of womenfolk in Muslim society; and third, the perversion of the Meaning of "obedience to those in authority" to denote abject subservience and shameless acquiescence to rulers, regardless of the extent of the wrongs that they might commit and the injustices which they might rpetrate",