Re: Who should Muslims learn from?
Well no doubt that salaat if practiced the correct way, sharpens your mind.
However if salaat is not offered correctly (as it was intended originally), it has the opposite effect.
*Majority of Islamists go through the motions of salaat, and thus gain no benefit from this wonderful practice. *
*You can bet your bottom dollar that almost all the Talibs, the murderers, the suicide bombers start their heinous crime-filled days with morning salat. *
And guess what, they blast innocent people inside and outside the very mosques that were supposed to be the sacred, the holy, the most peaceful place for any Muslim.
Iqbal said it right!
Tu jo sur besajada huwa kabhi To zameen say aanay lagi sada tera dil to sanam aashna tujhe kiya milay ga namaz main
Unless we clear our heart from all the prejudices and hate, salat will remain so, a practice that doesn't make a difference whatsoever.
Could not agree with you more.
Most of the so called religious people amongst us just follow the daily rituals (of praying etc.) like a physical routine and are neither sincere to their country nor their countrymen.
......or they pray out of fear of Allah rather than with the aim of improving themselves as humanbeings or purifying their souls. The net result is that they never mend their bad habits like chakkarbaazi, dishonesty etc. Praying alone is not enough. If you don't learn insaaniyat I am not sure what you are praying for...
Hence I say
Humanity or insaaniyat first then country then religion.