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Chapter 3
GENERAL QUESTIONS
Chapter 3
Secrets to the Advancement of Muslims at the early age of Islam
1. What was the secret of success and soundness of heart and body to the pious Muslims in the early age of Islam, and what was the cause of it?
2. Did the reality of faith and worship belong to the people of the early age of Islam, or has a portion of it also reached the next generations?
3. If a part of it has really reached present-day Muslims, why are we in a defeating situation, contrary to the pious Muslims of the early age of Islam, who, with all their poverty, weakness, lack of tools, equipment, and knowledge, prevailed over the strongest powers of the world, and we no longer even have influence over the disobedient members of our own families?
4. If no share or portion of it has reached us, then, for the followers of the Quran, what is the claim to being correct? Because Allah, The Exalted Being, has said, And say: Truth has (now) arrived, and falsehood perished: For falsehood is (by its nature) bound to perish." (17:81 Quran)
5. Do you know that truth is truth and falsehood is falsehood? Everywhere, and at all times, falsehood must not overcome truth.
6. Ponder well: Is it not strange if falsehood overcomes truth?
7. Is this adversity and backwardness of today's followers of Islam not stating our abstention from truth and reality?
8. What have we lost that has distanced us from truth, reality, and Allah, The Exalted Being?
9. How can we successfully reach truth and reality?
In response to all these unsolved puzzles, we should exclaim yes! The followers of University of Insight into God, simply by using their one and one half kilogram brain and one-half kilogram heart, guarantee the improvement and soundness of the individual and society, with the help of Allah, The Exalted Being.
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