Every individual born into this world has the right to live humanely, regardless of their identity. Even if some people want to usurp this right, others must stand against it. The Qur'an explains this by talking about a community that enjoins good and forbids evil. Muslims, who take the signs of the Qur'an as their guide, must have a vision that represents this community. However, from what we have experienced and seen, we understand that Muslims cannot adequately represent this vision. To the side of the Muslim mass who cannot protect their own and others' rights; we also need to add those who do not prioritize right, justice, sharing, trust and honesty.
We can all see the damage done to Islam by this negative image created by those who put their Islam on the agenda. In order to destroy this image, we need Muslims who can carry the basic principles of Islam to their age, not Muslims who put the formal elements of Islam on their agenda and act according to the necessities of the age.
Only in this way can we have the chance to offer solutions to the problems we face today. Thus, we can get the opportunity to prevent the negative image imposed on Islam and show the enlightening spirit of Islam.
It is possible that the solutions we will reveal are Muslim, if the encompassing measure of the revelation and the enlightening example of our Prophet (PBUH) can be carried to the present day. Because the more important the experience that the past offers us, the more important is the accumulation and level of consciousness of our age.
We do not have the chance to carry the past to the present as it is. After all, history has witnessed cruel rulers as well as just rulers. As well as the existence of people striving for good, there have also been people who tended to evil. While the scholars who express the truth without bending are a fact, it is also a fact that there are scholars who are fond of the sultan's table. That's why the effort to build our day on the basic principles and values presented by the past is valuable and appropriate for us.
The example of our Prophet (PBUH), who is the embodiment of revelation, offers us important opportunities in this regard. It will be our greatest achievement to understand the basic values that he put forward at every stage of his life and to carry them to the present day. First of all, we need to understand well what the example of our Prophet (PBUH)before his prophethood corresponds to. This is where the dawn will give us the moral ground that forms the Muslim identity.
When we look at the basic characteristics of our Prophet (PBUH) before the prophethood, his honesty, honesty, generosity, confidence, protection of the weak and the weak were the features that existed before the identity of a Muslim and a Prophet. We are talking about the Prophethood and Islamism of a person who puts these moral principles at the center of his life. As long as we can carry this example to the present, we can have the chance to define our Muslim identity through these moral principles. Thus, we have the opportunity to disperse the negative atmosphere that arises when the mediocre, which makes Islam visible today, reduces Islam to form and misses its moral content.
This ground is important both for the real understanding and living of Islam and for the correct representation of Islam. In order to keep this ground alive, we must look back at the example of our Prophet (PBUH) in every stage of his life. It is certain that we will find a lot of data that will reach our day and intervene in our lives.