If Islam is such a great religion, why did we fail to produce great muslims

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Re: If Islam is such a great religion, why did we fail to produce great muslims

@TLK

Bro FBI, thanks for the list, but unfortunately this is our list, not a global list of ‘great people’.

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.

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.

We can also do a survey and ask European/US Christians how they feel about Muhammad . Mostly, you’ll hear negative things. Does that not make him controversial figure “globally” since you are looking for a globally acclaimed figure? This was pointed out by RV below.

@redvelvet

Tlk,

For us Muslims, the greatest human example is that of Nabi SAWS. But guess what? He is not “globally respected” or appreciated either…at least not by the opponents of Islam or those skeptical about the religion. You can find articles and books and other media sources that vilify the Prophet’s SAWS character, intentions, life, etc. In fact many of Allah’s prophets were ridiculed by their own communities and families, globally to door ki baat hai.

Why feel doubt/despair/embarrassment over the scarcity of “lesser” contemporary Muslim heroes when the very best example (Prophet SAWS) is not globally respected/appreciated or has has been criticized and ridiculed from various corners of the globe? Sochne wali baat hai. Also, there’s a problem with the notion of “globally respected.”

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@TLK

RV, I already said that in my first post, so there is not disagreement that Nabi was a hero. I also agree that controversial figures are in every religion/communities. That is why I picked non-controversial figures from history, and I like to see at least one Muslim in that list.

Reha/RV,

I think I agree that Edhi sahab is in par with Mother T. Though I also believe that when nations fail to recognize their own heroes, others wont recognize them either. Reha pretty much said that in her last para.

Well since you are looking for “globally acclaimed” and “globally respected”, i am afraid even Edhi saab doesnt fall in that category and im sure no history teacher in US has heard of him either.