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CONCLUSION
"He has ordained for you the same religion he
enjoined on Noah, and that enjoined on Abraham, Moses and
Jesus; namely that you should remain steadfast in
religion and be united in it. But that to which you call
them is unacceptable to idolators. God chooses to himself
those whom he will, and guides to him those who turn to
him"(125).
This divine verse call upon the faithful to apply
religion and refrain from disagreement over it. It is,
indeed, a call for intellectual and political unity that
preserves the strength and resources of the Muslim in the
face of hostile cultural and ideological challenges. It
also instructs Muslims to behave in accordance with the
divine laws and apply them by bringing Muslims together
into a community and a single state.
In compliance with this divine command, Muslims are
obliged to focus their efforts on upholding their
religion, uniting their ranks and abandoning controversy
and schism. The ingredients of this unity are obvious:
all Muslims Sunnis as well as Shiites - share a belief
that whoever pronounce the Shahadatain, i.e. the
two testimonies bearing witness that there is only one
God. namely Allah, and Muhammad is his Prophet is a
Muslims. Also all Muslims believe in God, his Books,
Apostles, angles, divine destiny and predestination, the
Day of Judgement and that the Islamic creed is based on
the Quran, the prophet's traditions and permits recourse
to ijtihad or logical deduction.
Muslims also agree on the basic obligations of the
faithful and the necessity of performing them such as
praying, fasting, performing pilgrimage, paying zakat
or religious tax, taking part in just wars, propagating
virtues and prohibiting vice and upholding that whatever
the Prophet Muhammad allowed is permissible until the Day
of Judgement and whatever he disallowed is forbidden
until that day.
Disagreement among Islamic sects must be subjected to
unbaised analysis and objective criticism and should not
make us lose sight of the overwhelming consensus among
Muslims regarding basic tenets. Responsibility for
bringing this fact to all Muslims falls primarily on
Islamic scholars and thinkers who are urged to
concentrate their efforts on unifying Muslims and
disseminating Islamic thought, law and culture in
conformity with God's command:
"Cling one and all to the faith of God and let
nothing divide you"(126).
And 'Observe this religion and be united in it'(127).
