THE REBIRTH OF THE SPIRIT
ISLAM
YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW
For over 1000 years Islam was the dominant religion on the planet.
After 1700 Islam declined, and Christianity replaced it as the world's dominant
religion. However even today Islam is the second largest religion on the planet
and is actually growing faster than Christianity.
Why did Islam decline? We don't pretend to know the answer. The subject is
debated inside Islam today. Accusations are made. Ideas are discussed. There are
disputes between Sunnis and Shiites. There is a debate about the role of
the Wahhabi ideology in Sunni Islam. There is even a debate about this
inside Saudi Arabia itself.
Who knows where all this will go.
What we do know for sure is that things are
clearly not going well inside the western states. Europe and America hold
themselves up as a shining example of what to do but it is all too apparent that
they are in many ways an example of what not to do. We could look at the
destruction of the environment, the huge levels of wars inside this world. So
it's not at all clear that the American dream is the future. It's not at all
clear that Christianity is the future. It's not at all clear at all. Indeed
Christianity is mired in more internal disputes than Islam, and when you look at
history you see that Christianity was mired in internal disputes from the day it
was created and those internal disputes led to the majority of the world
Christians converting to Islam in the first two centuries of Islam. Could this
happen today? We don't claim to know. What we do claim is that the study of
Islam is important. The study of Islam matters, and the future of the world
cannot be put together if Islam is ignored. This is a fact so people need to
learn more about Islam and make their own conclusions.