The Cultural Problems of the Ummah: The Responsibility of the Muslim Intellectuals

Abstract

The Muslim ummah today is passing through the most critical period of its history. They are now divided into some fifty or more nation-states and the Super Empire is planning to divide them further. Muslims are humiliated. They are deceived, defeated, massacred, and proselytized. They are victims of oppression, aggression and injustice. The Muslim community now is being identified and stereotyped as bloodthirsty terrorists, fundamentalists and uncivilized. Muslims are being exploited and their resources plundered. Economically they are backward, largely depending on western technology. Muslims are now being identified as sick man of the world. They still depend on western armament to defend their borders. The large numbers of the members of the ummah are illiterate.