Would it be not better for Muslims to be United?

Question

If Muslims are united amoung themself than there want be any confilic between Muslim Ummah.

Answer 1

Muslims were united. It took only 20-odd years (from the beginning of the religion) for Muslims to divide (in 656) into the party of Ali (Shia) and the mainstream (Sunni) with more and more divisions following. Christianity was united (for maybe 5 min. under Constantine.) It took only a few centuries to divide into the Roman and Eastern Orthodox churches. I don't think we need go into the divisions that follow from Protestant split. Even Judaism, in an area so small as Israel could not stay together, upon the death of King Solomon they split into the Northern (Israel) kingdom and Southern (Judea) kingdom. The point is, as another answerer has pointed out, that religions should not be united. ostensibly, they deal with the spiritual needs and knowledge of human society. These are non-material and do not need cathedrals, mosques, temples , crusades or inquisitions to carry them out. There should be as many types of Islam as there are Muslims from Sunni and Shia to Ismaili and Sufism, and they same for all other religions. Organizing human society is a job for human society - so that we know that all decisions are made by men who can make mistakes. organizing our souls is the job for each individual and God - and nobody needs a theocratic organization coming between themselves and God. If you want to work at uniting something, try uniting all of the people of the world to address such material questions as a polluted environment and global warming, personal freedom and security, a more balanced economy - if we could achieve that, religion would take care of itself.

Answer 2

Hard to unite creeds that are mutually bent on dominating and destroying one another.

It might be possible for unity through a common secular government, but frankly I don't see that happening outside of the near eastern nations anytime soon.

Muslims will have to come to grips with the unworkability of sacralized government before that happens.

Answer 3

Does it really matter? If religion (all religions, not just Islam) were to be on a more personal level, then there would be no need for these debates.

Going to church, the mosque, the synagogue, the temple, whatever, is a great way to share in your religious beliefs with other people, but I can't find any need for religion to be the basis behind government, nationalism, revolutionary movements, etc.

Answer 4

It would take a long essay to tell you why muslims the world over can never unite so i'll just say i prefer manchester united... lol

Answer 5

The real muslims are united

Answer 6

If Muslims were to unite it would probably be under the kill all infidels ideology....I will take them nice and divided thank you very much.
This may sound bad but I would much rather have them killing each other over in the middle east than killing me and mine in America.

Answer 7

You could say the same thing about Christian sects and Jewish sects. People believe different things. They find the religion closest to what they believe. Then they condemn everyone else who doesn't believe as they do to hell. What can I say? People are crazy. But you have to love them anyway. Although, bottom line, I love my cats more than most people I've ever met.

Answer 8

i think that there is to much discrimination against towel heads, i mean muslims (oops)

Answer 9

It would be better if american were not to be in Iraq. You'd get yourself KILLED!

Answer 10

another asyria?