![]() This group of ‘Ulama’ are of the view that there is no need for the Muslims to make any compromise on the primary or secondary principles of their religion for the sake of Islamic unity. So, why shouldn’t the Muslims use all these extensive facilities accorded to them as the blessing of Islam? According to the explicit wording of the Qur’an, the Muslims are brothers, and special rights and duties link them together. This is especially true in view of the stress laid by Islam on this principle. Unity in the world view, in culture, in the civilization, in insight and disposition, in religious beliefs, in acts of worship and prayers, in social rites and customs can well turn the Muslim into a unified nation to serve as a massive and dominant power before which the big global powers would have to bow down. Muslims also share one kind of world view, one common culture, and one grand, glorious, and long-standing civilization. Apart from minor affairs, they share similarities in all the aforementioned cases. They have similar ways of bringing up their children and burying their dead. They establish families and engage in transactions like one another. They say the daily prayers and fast like each other. They go to “hajj” pilgrimage with each other and perform the “hajj” rites and rituals like one another. The Qur’an is the Book of all Muslims and Ka’abah is their “qiblah” (direction of prayer). ![]() All Muslims worship the One Almighty and believe in the Prophethood of the Holy Prophet (s). These scholars state that Muslims have many things in common, which can serve as the foundations of a firm unity. By the Islamic unity these scholars mean that all Muslims should unite in one line against their common enemies. Without doubt, by the term Islamic unity, the intellectual Islamic ‘Ulama’ (scholars) do not mean that all denominations should give in to one denomination or that the commonalties should be taken up and the different views and ideas be set aside, as these are neither rational and logical nor favorable and practical. To give an illogical and impractical meaning to the issue of the Islamic unity, the opponents of the issue have called it to be the formation of a single Madhhab, so as to defeat it in the very first step. Or does it mean that Islamic unity is in no way related to the unity of the different schools of Fiqh (jurisprudence) but signifies the unity of the Muslims and the unity of the followers of different schools of Fiqh, with their different religious ideas and views, vis-?-vis the aliens? Or does it mean that the commonalties of all Islamic schools of thought should be taken up and their differences be put away to make up a new denomination which is not completely the same as the previous ones? To answer this question, it is necessary first to elucidate the essence of this issue, that is, the Islamic unity, and then proceed to examine the role of the magnum opus entitled “al-Ghadir” and its eminent compiler ‘Allamah Amini in bringing about Islamic unity.ĭoes it mean that one Islamic school of thought should be unanimously followed and others be set aside? We are aware that Islamic unity and fraternity is the focus of attention of the Holy Legislator of Islam and is actually the major objective pursued by this Divine religion as firmed by the Qur’an, the “Sunnah”, and the history of Islam.įor this reason, some people have been faced with this question: Wouldn’t the compilation and publication of a book such as “al-Ghadir” which deals with the oldest issue of differences among the Muslims- create a barrier in the way of the sublime and lofty objective of the Islamic unity? In this review the Islamic unity has been dealt with from a social point of view.Ĭontemporary Muslim thinkers and reformists are of the view that unity and solidarity of Muslims are the most imperative Islamic exigencies at the present juncture when the enemies have made extensive inroads upon the Islamic community and have tried to resort to different ways and means to spread the old differences and create new ones. Islamic thinkers shed light on the book in different perspectives in literature, history, theology, tradition, tafsir, and sociology.įrom the social perspective we can deal with the Islamic unity. The distinguished book entitled “al-Ghadir” raised a huge wave in the world of Islam.
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