Muhammet Esiroğlu: "Why doesn't our faith say stop?"

Muhammet Esiroğlu: "Why doesnt our faith say stop?"
Date: 9.7.2023 17:00

Milli Gazete columnist Muhammet Esiroğlu writes on Muslims. Here is the full article.

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We can accept the most important of the basic actions that Islam has imposed on humanity as "Enjoin the good and forbid the wrong". Therefore, working to build goodness and fighting evil must be the hallmarks of being a Muslim. But when we look around us, our geography or the whole world, we witness that evil has descended upon us and that our Islam cannot put a stop to it.
 
Well, while the basic promise of Islam is to make the good and the beautiful prevail, why can't Muslims achieve this? We can find many answers to this question, we can make many excuses from outside ourselves. But we should not forget that we always have to start questioning from ourselves.
 
When we think on the basis of the Muslim individual, the most accurate answer that can be given is to isolate action from morality. In other words, there is no complete overlap between what we accept as good deeds and what Islam claims.
 
When we say good deeds, the incident that comes to mind in the mind of an average Muslim is nothing but individual worship. Thus, Islam has been condemned to a form, has been devoid of content, and has led to the separation of deeds and morals from each other.
 
This has led Muslims to direct their motivation in social life not to moral actions but to formal deeds. Let's leave this mediocre religious understanding of Muslims to contribute to the construction of goodness, to prevent evil; It can even lead Muslims to become the source of evil themselves.
 
Another answer is the loss of Muslims' ability to act on a common ground.
 
Many factors such as ethnic divisions, nation-states' ownership of Muslim identity, sectarian differences occupying the political ground, and the intolerance of different views are eliminating the chance for Muslims to act together.
 
As Muslims deal with the evil they have produced among themselves, there is no energy left for the struggle against the existing evil, and this struggle weakens in the absence of unity of power.
 
Finally, we cannot talk about an organized Muslim stance that can stand against the organizational structure of evil. In fact, we have given the reasons for this in the previous paragraph. The result of mental and physical disorganization is institutional fragmentation.
 
The inability of Muslims to act with a common goal does not allow them to build a strong institutional structure that can stand up to organizational evil. Existing institutions have a content that does not go beyond bureaucracy.
 
Milli Görüş's vision of a new world is a good source of motivation in this sense. The founding purpose of the D-8 was an important step towards building this institutional structure, but the process did not progress towards this goal, and it is a fact that the D-8 has moved away from this purpose today.
 
I think the key concept in solving these three problems is communication. Muslims need to resolve Islam's moral division by re-contacting with the Qur'an and Sunnah.
 
In addition, the communication between Muslims of different identities, belongings and views, who share the same geography and the same cultural basin, will also provide them with the opportunity to meet on a common ground.
 
On the basis of states, Islamic countries can achieve the desired organizational integrity by getting rid of national arrogance and by establishing a correct communication between them.

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