Re: If Islam is such a great religion, why did we fail to produce great muslims
Bro FBI, thanks for the list, but unfortunately this is our list, not a global list of ‘great people’. Unfortunately, your list started with the people who are controversial (in terms of Heroism) amongst Muslims themselves, yet you are including them in the list of ‘World Heroes’. Ask a core shia person if he thinks that Hazrat Umar was a Hero. All those people were just close friends and family of Prophet, so for us they are respectable people. That is it. Whether we like it or not, there is no great deed they did, that changed the face of the world, or even an era.
If you take your list, and show it to a professor of History of your local university in USA, he would not recognize the 90% of those names. You have Aurangzeb Alamgir in your list, who single handedly turned whole sikh nation against Muslim by killing two sons of their leader, for no reason. If anything, I consider Aurangzeb the biggest enemy of Indo Pak Muslims.
Ibn-e-Batuta has a huge conspiracy attached to him. Many believe that he fabricated many of his journeys without even setting a foot out of his home.
Tariq bin Ziyad was a world hero? Ask European Christians this question and they may have a different answer. For God sake, even the story of him burning his boats so they cant go back is a fabricated one.
Your whole list of reformers is controversial. Even Jinnah was not what our history painted him to be. Mustafa Kamal (I hope you are referring to the father of Turks, and not the MQM leader) was an anti-mulla person and not really a representative of ‘Muslim Ummah’.
Your list is a list of Aqqedat mandi, not a list of real heroes.