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[quote]AOA Brother Waseem,
I really appreciate for a very thought provoking article trying to hit the root cause of all the problems without being fooled by the symptoms.
Why do we need religion? Why should we be Muslims? I guess this is the basic question that all the scholars must be focusing on.
Is religion an external thing being imposed by us on ourselves? or its the sound of nature from within ourselves, as claimed by the Muslims (they say that every child is born on his fitrah and hence is Muslim). If religion is the answer or sound of our inner selves then we first need to identify the basic questions that rise from within? We should not only determine those but finding an answer of those questions must also hold a significant place within our lives. This is described in Quran as Noor upon Noor. If we don't feel any sound from within ourselves then this religion is just an external thing and will merely be used for specific occasions, slogans, demands from government etc etc etc, while the daily life will be empty from it. Pakistan is a classic example of it.
The only thing religion does, in my humble and extremely limited knowledge is that it makes the life after death an issue for humans in a way that this issue not only encompasses his whole life but also becomes the top most priority. (Quran says that Allah has sent his messengers as Bashirs and Nazirs).
Secondly it tells us that purification is the only way you can succeed in life hereafter. Thats what the whole philosphy of religion revolves around. And while giving his Shariah Allah doesn't give a comprehensive list of all the things that we need to do it only picks up a handful of issues and gives his guidance. Why is that? If we had to be purified then we of course need a long and big list of things we need to do to be successful. From Quran we know that Allah hasn't created humans without any guidance. Rather humans have builtin not only concept of good and bad but also the details of them upon which the collective human history itself is the biggest evidence.
So keeping above and the issues faced by Muslims in mind, what we need to do is:
a)  Get rid of the fancy and hallucinative glasses of Islam that we use to betray ourselves and hide from the ground realities.
b) Just start thinking that we are a natural and normal human beings and what should we do. This will not only help us look at and accept the ground realities but will also help us understands the laws governing the success of individuals and the rise/falls of nations. There will be some question also to which the Islam has the answers.

May Allah show us the right path and give us the courage to accept and follow it.

W/salaams
Imran[/quote]

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