Re: What if…
You call our ummah best when we need someone from outside our ummah to come rescue us. Muhammad PBUH is the greatest because his ummah is the greatest.. the reason why its the greatest is that it has been given the glad tiding of anyone who obey Allah and the messenger will be given 4 rewards. Sidique, Shaheed, Saleheen, and Nabiyeen. Our religion does not allow and does not give any room for any prior prophet to come in our ummah to rescue us. Muhammad PBUH alone is the rehmatul lil alameen.. all other prophets were sent to their own people and had a limited teaching.
How does sticking to majority help you? Read what Quran says :
It’s only just ignorance from Quran. If we read Quran we understand that the mankind has always been one community.. though they differed among themselves, but they r still called one ummah.. it is then when Allah raise a prophet.. does that mean all the majority of people accept him ? absolutely not! So, its just to give your mind a false satisfaction that no matter what, majority will always be right.. Holy prophet says.. they will all be hell bound! Allah is Ar-Raheem. He says that we were in the edge of a cliff and HE saved you ! HOW? by sending a prophet.. and through him, we became brothers. Kindly do not make up your own mumbo jumbo.. and reflect upon Quran and its teachings. It is very much possible that majority had to go wrong for Allah to send Messiah to guide them back to pure deen.. and ofcourse, whoever accepts him will be called a jamaat.. and the rest are hell bound ( Allah knows best if it means hell on Earth , since we have been seen muslim ummah having reverse gear.. fitnas start from within them and ends within them.. or Allah knows if He meant hell after life ).
Our jamaat did not split away. You say whatever you feel like.. I can’t stop you on that.. but rest assured, this is what always happens.. when the prophet comes, whoever accept him becomes an even better momin of that deen and create a jamaat who follows him… this does not make one out of islam.. that is your misunderstanding. Musvi shariya saw many many prophets between Musa a.s and Jesus a.s, and yet whoever kept accepting them remained a Jew.
This is deemed to happen even in your own aqeedah. You will always have opponents.. bitter opponents.. and the bitter the opponents, the more success Allah gives to his chosen one.
I do not see you or a person like ibn sadique who can modify their beliefs if Messiah tells them. You will call him heretics too because he will not be fitted according to your own version of Islam.
And Allah knows best.