Re: What Islamic Ummah?
What is the definition of Jews and how the term derived? Any historical evidence that the term Jew existed even before Abraham to support the statement that Abrahamic religions were invented by Jews.
If by Abrahamic religion you mean monotheism then concept of monotheism did exist before Abraham and was preached by many prophets before Abraham.
As far as the case of certain prevalent ideas, then religions like Islam don’t claim that they came up with these ideas at first. Like basic arkaans of Islam were there in one or other form and Islam just rectified the form in most cases.
For topic, the way this concept of Ummah is idelised is just a utopia. With so many secterian differences which started just after the death of the Prophet, the concept is a farce and mainly used for political gains.
As far as involvement of religion in goverment / governance is concerned, in presence of so many sects and one sect having immense intolerance for other sect, its practically unworkable. Isn’t it ironic, that some parts of Ummah are treated like minorities or even worse than minorities in the name of religion? So please, anyone supporting involvement of religion in goverannce should keep that pindora box with himself.