Who will Benefit from the Qur’an First?

Liaquat Ali 1/11/2002

A friend made the following statement:

"I am sure the Muslims will start climbing up the ladder of victory and success again just the way they used to have success as per Allah's promise in early centuries of Islam before we were introduced to many senseless innovations."

This is a pretty common wish Muslims seem to have.

Unfortunately for Muslims, the Qur'an does not recognize "lineage" per se. The Qur'an differentiates people between two major categories. The ones who believe in the Qur'anic Message, and act according to the Divine Laws, and the ones who don't believe, and act according to WHATEVER ELSE.

Therefore, whosoever understands the Message and acts accordingly benefits. Theoretically, Muslims will revert to the Qur'anic Message as soon as it is made clear to them. But the ground reality tells me otherwise.

The Qur'an did not bring yet another religion. It brought a Deen. The spiritual aspect of the Deen may be compared with other religions. (Note: Deen vs. religion is a topic in itself.)

Since the West has gone so far ahead in terms of human development, has gone thru the process of denouncing nonsensical aspects of certain religions, and is in-tuned with the Qur'anic injunction of "question everything", Westerners will adopt the Qur'anic Message long before the Muslim masses adapt to it.

Only the open-minded Muslims, who think like Westerners, will adapt the Message. This is a relatively small number. It will take a long, hard struggle to rid general Muslims off of man-made, demi-Islamic, religious chains they are wearing.

Allah does not care if a believer's father/mother was a Muslim, Christian, Hindu or Atheist. Therefore, reformers must focus on ALL humans, and work with the humans who are interested in the Message, thus increasing the number of targeted audience by 300% - 400%.