the Quranic language...

Arabic is to Islam what Mandarin is to the Chinese... the "uniting" factor...

As Muslims, we profess the way of life (Ad-Deen) as guided to us via the Noble Quran... we recite the Khalimah, a promise, an oath, that we believe in the One and Only God, Allah S.W.T. and that we believe Muhammad S.A.W. to be the last and completion of the prophets... this Khalimah is of course recited in Arabic... and I'm sure many of us know the literal, as well as the symbolical, meaning behind the Khalimah...

At the current state we're in, I have to use the word "decay" to describe us... our once mighty and glorious Empire of Faith, reduced to what Westerners call an extrimist religion... who's to blame?.. naturally we are to be blamed...

What went wrong?

I say our fall is directly linked to the fact that we've lost our way, we've strayed-off the path shown to us by Allah S.W.T. in the Noble Quran...

There are many examples I can pluck from history books to show where Muslim's have strayed off the path, the most notable being those by the Khaliphs of the Abbasiyah and Otthaminiyah... but I won't touch on those, do your own research and in the process you'll learn more than just than what I can write in simple words...

I'm going to touch on the subject of language...

How many Muslim's alive can say they speak fluent Arabic?.. even those of us of partial Arabic lineange can't speak fluent Arabic... the problem of language, or lack of a common language, means that we lack the medium needed to exchange knowledge, information, and most importantly wisdom... I'm not just talking about religious/theological knowledge, but every aspect of daily life, both personally and professionally... we know Islam to be an all-encompassing way of life (ad-Deen doesn't traslate as "religion" but "way/path of life")... hence Islam guides us in every aspect of daily life... the most important barrier facing us is that without knowing the Arabic language, the language of the Noble Quran, how do we read and understand the teachings of the Noble Quran?.. remember one every important fact; translation of the Al-Quran is not the Al-Quran, merely a book of translation...

We fail to notice how this has impacted us, but the evidence is all around us...

The absence of good-governence, the absurd institutions and bodies, as well as cimmissions that are in existance; not to mention the syirik practices that are common practice in this country... they all exist because we fail to understand Islam in it's entirety, it's totallity... but how are we to understand Islam when we don't speak Arabic?..

Could not this problem be solved by simply learning to comprehend the Arabic language?.. the damage done is so severe that there is no simple solution to it... but... comprehending the Arabic language is the first step towards solving the problem Islam is facing...

You might be tempted to start learning the Arabic language after reading this entry... afterall, as the Noble Quran indicated thru Surah Al-Qalam, the universe was created using the Arabic language... Arabic is the language of Origin...