The Ummah is in utter decay. You know it. I know it. We all know it. But the question is this: with so many so-called religious leaders and with so many mosques why is it that the poison of apathy that courses through our veins hasn’t been purged? Why is it that when we see so much injustice around us we do not stand up to the oppressor? The reason is because our Mosques are damaging Islam – and don’t let anyone else tell you otherwise.

From a young age onwards we are supposedly taught about the Beloved Prophet's (pbuh) life and yet we remain unaffected - the reason is because our mosque leaders never talk about the real issues that face the Ummah.

You’ll hear 700 talks on wudhu before you finally find one that actually explains the situation, and even then it’ll be a pie-in-the-sky talk that doesn’t really address the issues but instead will give the Muslim audience a cheap spiritual high.

And because these talks are the norm, we grow up in an environment where we want to satisfy our fix of cheap spiritual highs by going to more meaningless talks and we’re taught about this pseudo-piety, where caring for yourself is more important than caring for the Ummah and more important than helping the oppressed.

Think about it this way - when a Muslim seeks his or her Lord and is taught more about the permissibility of nail varnish, the correct length of trousers and all other manner of ritual obligations but, when is asked about what they have done for the oppressed and downtrodden of this world, they cannot reply. They cannot reply without it sounding like an excuse or a lie and then you know – you just know – that the teachers of the faith no longer know Allah or how to reach Him.

They have made light into darkness and called it Islam. They destroyed the very people they were teaching and made them into selfish people chasing a god who never asked of them any real pain or sacrifice to establish justice.

In short they destroyed the Muslims more effectively than the enemies of Islam ever could because they are damaging Islam from within.

The mosques that were once beacons of light are now nothing more than black holes where all good is sucked out and only darkness remains.

Just as when ivy covers a tree it starves the tree of nutrients, kills it and then you have just ivy in the form of a tree without anything inside it, similarly our mosque leaders have starved our institutions and now we have corrupt emptiness that appears in the form of a mosque.

But the mosque is meant to be more - so much more and it is only through reviving the mosques can we help to change the situation of the Ummah for the better.

Of course, Islam can't be destroyed, but we're going about it the right way if it ever would be.

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