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As long as we are bent upon dividing our own ummah by calling them mod-muslim and muslim, I don't see how we are going to ever be united under one khilafat. If we are to function as an ummah, we need to bridge differences, rather then harp on them. My personal opinion, again. :-)
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Muslims are not perfect and also we cannot deny that some muslims are secularist and infatuated with the western lifestyle.
On issue of differences i don`t think it is a big issue as people make out. As a practicle example today you got sunni and you got shia. In iraq the kuffar tried to play divide and rule between shia and sunni, what happened they failed the sunni and shia have united against 1 common enemy the amerikkkans and GI Joes are getting shot up by the dozen.
Differences will@always be there and this not a problem as long as it remains inside the islamic framework and does not spill over into the haram.
The only real opposition to Khilaafah is from the ruling elites and their die-hard secular supporters in all Muslim countries.
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Well, ruling elite is kinda obvious, cz you are talking about taking their jobs... however amongst the one billion plus muslims around the world, how many do you think belong to the ruling elites? Probably hardly a small fraction. "Die-hard secular supporters" are mostly wary about the unknown - i.e. its not clear how much of the current life-style will change if there is a khalifa. Since there are hundreds of interpretations on almost every contentous issue in Islam, so its not immediately clear how strict or liberal laws will be implemented.
Is Arabic the only way to reach Allah? Why cant' translation be good enough? Yous have accepted the Arab hegemony without thinking even for a nano-second, I am not a muslim but I can gurantee you that either Indian muslims or majority of Pakistanis for that matter, feel lot more in touch with the Parwardeegar if they pray to hin in their own language be it Pakhtuni, Urdu or Bengali. In fact more of them worship Allah in bahasa Indonesia than any other language. If you don't speak to your mother in Arabic, how dare you imply that with Allah (saw) you prefer to communicate in strange tongue? If someone threw a bucket of water on your face when while you are asleep, you will scream in your mother-tongue. It is total bekwas to say that only Arabic is acceptable to Allah. Wake up my friend and realise that this is Arab domination that Arabs have forced on muslim world without an iota of reality behind it. Do you think all those devout muslims in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh,China, Indonesia and elsewhere out of Arabia think in Arabic when praying to Allah?
As for 6 year old making sense haven't you heard the proverb that God speaks thru the mouths of babes? Reading your posts it is obvoious to me that you are totally impervious to any independent thinking.
And just to deflate your arrogance of being the sole purveyor of truth, I am not at all afraid my kayaamat just because I disagree with almost all your opinions.
Arabic is better understood by whom, an Indonesian who doesn't understand a word of Arabic and only knows bahasa Indonesia? BTW Indonesia is the largest muslim nation in the world. As a muslim nation it has more muslims than all of Arabia put together.
Arabic today is totally different to arabic written in the koran.
The arabic in the koran is fusiha arabic (classical arabic.)
A translation of koran is fine if you want basic understanding of koran but to get 100% accuracy you need to go somebody who understands the arabic version to get clear cut meaning.
And people from all over the world know fusiha arabic and they not even arabs. They go to places like egypt and morrocco on courses to learn this classical arabic.
Why has there been many versions of the bible because over time the transalation has changed and corrupted the original version of bible and today i don:t know how many versions of bible there is maybe 10, 20, 30 i dont know.
It very important not to lose original version to avoid having problems like the xstians.
i remember once bahrain’s prime minister went to malaysia for a visit…
he went to a university there and was left with his mouth wide open when he heard the student give the welcome speech in arabic…
i have heard such fluent arabic even ni the arabs as i heard from that malaysian kid…
u dont have to be an arab to know arabic…
what kind of silly logic do u come up with???
. Never ever we see nor we have tried to.