If The Muslim Nations
Disappear From The Map Of The World Today, What Harm Would It Do To The
World? Dr. Hamid Abd ul Samad Says: 'Almost Nothing'
By Nastik Durrani, New Age Islam
October 22, 2013
I stumbled upon a book
titled “the downfall of the Muslim world” authored by an Egypt-based
German novelist and historian Hamid Abd al-Samad. In this work, he seeks
to cover the Muslim world's major problems to be faced in the next
thirty years. He opines that the Islamic world is plagued with the
persistent downfall due to a number of reasons such as the impending
drying up of the oil wells, scarcity of forests and breeding lands,
increase in the deserts, rise of sectarian, ethnic and economic tensions
that continue unabated, as well as a large population of Muslim
countries migrating to the west and Europe.
The author believes
that Islam did not give humanity anything new or worthwhile. He makes
out that the Muslim world will reach the climate of decay and downfall
within the next two decades with no remedy for their ills, except for a
miracle that alone can save them from their misery.
Highlighting the
important reasons behind their decline, the author points out that
Muslim countries lack in economy, active and constructive educational
system and intellectual temperament. He believes these "devastating
disasters" will ultimately result into their downfall, and avers that
that the structure of the Islamic building has already got impaired and
is now going through the final stages of its falling. He adds that
Muslim nations did achieve a measure of progress in the middle ages when
they came in contact with other civilisations and, hence, derived
inspirations from them. Thus, they embraced a sort of intellectual
openness that led them to benefit from the works and sciences invented
by other civilisations.
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