Re: The sorry state of Muslims today
really? there was infighting, ayesha vs ali battle of basorah assassination of calpihs base in tribal allegiances..Umar, Usman..Ali, Hasan the brutal attempt to wipe the prophet's family from the face of earth i.e. yazid's lameness at karbala thousans upon thousands of fake ahadeeth created and attributed to the prophet..remember how many the compilers like muslim and bokhari had to toss out. we all know about the senseless posturing of involove parties even at Imam Hasan's burial
sorry it was not quite as good as people would like to believe.
and niether were all early muslims as good as we would like to believe. They were humans, like us, with their weaknesses, strengths, errors, an it manifested in many things..
Brother, I agree with you that their was a dispute on minor issues between some of the muslims at that time (which happens everywhere in all socieities), but still you see, in general, they were role models in terms of practicing Islamic teachings. All nonislamic forces were afraid of attacking them, and they made developments in all fields of life. Even if they had disputes their intentions were sincere (in most of the cases). In most of the cases both the opposing parties thought that they were doing it for Allah. (I am not talking about Yazid, but other disputes between pious muslims).