Re: Have Muslims made a mockery of Islam?
I think religion had a lot to do with our failure. Islamic world during Haroon’s and Mamoon’s time was moving in right direction. But Muslims lost their way when mutazila lost and Asharis like Ghazali won.
Islam’s problem was that the best brains of Muslims were striving to become a great scholar in some field of Islamic studies, instead of trying to be a great engineer or scientist.
Such mentality is present even today among many people, who differentiate between Islamic and scientific knowledge. To them, knowledge is ONLY religious. Physics, chemistry, etc, don’t account for knowledge at all.
That is the reason Muslims were not able to break the threshold, even though they came so close to starting industrial revolution which ultimately happened in Europe.
To ignore this reality, and only blame Tatars for the downfall of Muslims is not true.