Saudi Arabia calls for equitable climate financing at UNHRC    NCM Forecast: Dust storms expected across Saudi Arabia until next week    SR200,000 fine for Saudi and Egyptian in cover-up case    PIF assets soar to $1.15 trillion in 2024    Saudi Arabia advances 14 places to 13th rank in IPR Enforcement Index globally    Hundreds of families displaced by wave of Israeli air strikes on Gaza, witnesses say    Republican Senator Thom Tillis to leave Congress after clash with Trump    Car bomb attack in Pakistan kills at least 13 soldiers    One of Hong Kong's last major pro-democracy parties disbands    Saudi Arabia imposes final anti-dumping duties on imports of steel pipes from China and Taiwan    Iranian Army Chief calls Saudi Defense Minister to discuss regional stability    Saudi Arabia's net FDI jumps 44% to SR22 billion in Q1 2025    Historic Jeddah's visual identity re-imagined through global art installations at Al-Arbaeen Lagoon    Saudi Arabia exit Gold Cup after quarterfinal defeat to Mexico    Al Hilal land in Orlando ahead of Club World Cup clash with Manchester City    Cristiano Ronaldo says the past is over and this season will be Al Nassr's    Al Hilal suffer injury blows ahead of Club World Cup match with Manchester City    Brad Pitt's Los Angeles home 'ransacked', police say    Tehran Symphony Orchestra holds free concert to honor Iranians killed in conflict with Israel    49% of Saudi internet users spend 7 hours a day online    Sholay: Bollywood epic roars back to big screen after 50 years with new ending    Ministry launches online booking for slaughterhouses on eve of Eid Al-Adha    Shah Rukh Khan makes Met Gala debut in Sabyasachi    Pakistani star's Bollywood return excites fans and riles far right    Exotic Taif Roses Simulation Performed at Taif Rose Festival    Asian shares mixed Tuesday    Weather Forecast for Tuesday    Saudi Tourism Authority Participates in Arabian Travel Market Exhibition in Dubai    Minister of Industry Announces 50 Investment Opportunities Worth over SAR 96 Billion in Machinery, Equipment Sector    HRH Crown Prince Offers Condolences to Crown Prince of Kuwait on Death of Sheikh Fawaz Salman Abdullah Al-Ali Al-Malek Al-Sabah    HRH Crown Prince Congratulates Santiago Peña on Winning Presidential Election in Paraguay    SDAIA Launches 1st Phase of 'Elevate Program' to Train 1,000 Women on Data, AI    41 Saudi Citizens and 171 Others from Brotherly and Friendly Countries Arrive in Saudi Arabia from Sudan    Saudi Arabia Hosts 1st Meeting of Arab Authorities Controlling Medicines    General Directorate of Narcotics Control Foils Attempt to Smuggle over 5 Million Amphetamine Pills    NAVI Javelins Crowned as Champions of Women's Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) Competitions    Saudi Karate Team Wins Four Medals in World Youth League Championship    Third Edition of FIFA Forward Program Kicks off in Riyadh    Evacuated from Sudan, 187 Nationals from Several Countries Arrive in Jeddah    SPA Documents Thajjud Prayer at Prophet's Mosque in Madinah    SFDA Recommends to Test Blood Sugar at Home Two or Three Hours after Meals    SFDA Offers Various Recommendations for Safe Food Frying    SFDA Provides Five Tips for Using Home Blood Pressure Monitor    SFDA: Instant Soup Contains Large Amounts of Salt    Mawani: New shipping service to connect Jubail Commercial Port to 11 global ports    Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Delivers Speech to Pilgrims, Citizens, Residents and Muslims around the World    Sheikh Al-Issa in Arafah's Sermon: Allaah Blessed You by Making It Easy for You to Carry out This Obligation. Thus, Ensure Following the Guidance of Your Prophet    Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques addresses citizens and all Muslims on the occasion of the Holy month of Ramadan    







Thank you for reporting!
This image will be automatically disabled when it gets reported by several people.



The truth that the Ummah must face
Sultan Baghazal
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 11 - 12 - 2011


Saudi Gazette
This refers to Dr. Omar Elmershedi's comment regarding the hope of Sunnis ascending to power in Syria. I fully agree with his observation that some political regimes in MENA are silently praying for the dominance of Islamists in countries where political re-engineering is taking place, as long as Sunnis end up in the driver's seat. To them, Syria will fit this mold, after the collapse of Bashar Al-Assad and his gang. To them, this would be a sure way of countering Iranian hegemony.
Elmershedi seems to be a staunch realist and a keen observer of the changes in Middle East politics. If the present Syrian regime falls, Sunnis will be in a position to rule Syria after a long time, but I doubt if they will be able to counter Iranian hegemony even if the Iranian regime is destroyed by blanket bombing like in Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan or Libya. The current Shiite and Sunni political and religious propaganda that is blinding the Ummah is harming both Islamic sects socially and politically.
The teachings of the famous Islamic thinker Ghazali were able to put the jinn of division back into the bottle for centuries. The two ancient Islamic sects were able to rule the Ummah without much religious fanfare for centuries. In those days, the Islamic Ummah, was enlightened and practical. After the advent of colonial powers the jinn of division was freed again to frighten and mislead the Ummah.
Sectarian divide became a political card played shamelessly by the blood-thirsty colonialists. In the name of research, the Orientalists and European historians muddied the crystal-clear water of history with their poisonous and biased writings. Many Arab and Asian students studied in European and Western universities. And many of them sold their souls and became an enemy of their own culture and religion.
Developments in the Arab Spring seem to be the repetition of historical mistakes. It seems that most Western-educated Arabs are accepting whatever comes from the West. The religious scholars either have become spokesmen for the old Arab regimes in the Middle East unconditionally or they have adopted an extremist ideology.
Either way they have lost touch with the silent masses that are terrified by the menace of violence in the form of wars under the Zionist agenda imposed on the Muslim Ummah.
No Muslim leadership, political or religious, is able to lead the Muslim Ummah in a time of crisis. This leadership vacuum is filled with small Shiite and Sunni extremist groups. This is unfortunate for such a big Ummah with clear-cut social, political and religious guidance.
The Sunnis cannot decimate the Shiite minority and the Shiites cannot defeat the overwhelming majority of the Sunnis. Both sects have been on this planet since the early days of Islam and they will be in the future. It seems that it is the will of God to test our sincerity to our faith. Having political power or no political power, the Sunnis or the Shiites have to lead their lives in their countries peacefully — this is the simple truth. Nothing will prevail except Truth.
We, mortal human beings, have to depart from this world sooner or later and this should be remembered by subjects, rulers, intellectuals and the common man. The Middle East went through socialist experiments and religious experiments earlier. This part of the world should be careful in its social, political and religious experiments, keeping the future of the Islamic Ummah in its mind.
Peace will elude the Sunnis or Shiites, if they forget this truth. __


Clic here to read the story from its source.