WHY AND HOW WERE MUSLIMS MADE TO LAG BEHIND? (III)

_{Later, however, after having forsaken Islamic morals and Islamic commandments —they had even defiled the belief of the Ahl as-sunnat and had commenced the base process of demolishing Islam from within— they were not able to pass over the Pyrenees. The Umayra State collapsed in 423 [1031]. After them, Andalusia was dominated first by a state called Mulassimîn or Murâbitîn and then by the State of Muwahhidîn. But the Spanish captured also the city of Granada in 897 [1492], and slew its Muslim inhabitants. They had the nemesis for their dissipation. Had it not been for the catastrophe of Spain, the corrupt ideas of the philosophers named Ibnirrushd (Averroës) and Ibni Hazm would perhaps have spread over the world in the disguise of faith and îmân, and thus today’s picture of melancholy would have appeared hundreds of years earlier.}

_{Then, people who rescued the human race from distress and wretchedness were not states with corrupt beliefs and deeds, such as the Fâtimîs, Rasûlîs, or Wahhabis, who bore Islamic names, but instead they were Sunnî states that held fast to Islam, such as the Umayyads, the sons of Tîmûr (Tamerlane), and the Ottomans. These states had shone a light on humanity with the religious and scientific branches of Islamic knowledge. But, it is a shame that later these very people, too, began to slacken their hold of Islam. They martyred the Khalîfas. Many business institutions remained under the oppression of ignorant people of religion and Masonic henchmen. They gave up working as Allâhu ta’âlâ had commanded. The enemies of Islam cancelled the scientific lessons in the madrasas so that Muslims would lag behind. Educating the men of religion without science, without knowledge, they began to demolish Islam from within. Knowledge and science having been cancelled, morals and manners as prescribed by Islam, sense of shame, and faith were corrupted. The empire collapsed. In truth, Islam commands experimental knowledge, science, arts and industry emphatically.}

_{In these states also, as faith corrupted and loyalty to Islam diminished, for reasons stated by the experts of Islam, there developed a standstill and a recession. Eventually, they perished. As explained by the hadîth, “Ash-shar’u tahtas-sayf,” the Islamic sun set, and the earth took on its present appearance.}