The dialectic of backwardness and progress with the thought of the Brotherhood

Ma Bitar, Mamdouh Bitar
There is no doubt about the backwardness of the Arab world, and there is no doubt that there are reasons for this backwardness, and there is no doubt about the great role that political religion plays in the lives of these peoples. Therefore, it is necessary to examine the relationship of religion, especially its applications, with progress and backwardness, a study that aims first and foremost with interest, and has nothing to do with derogation. Of religion or victory for it, is it a person’s duty to serve religion? Or is it the duty of religion to serve humanity?
These people are positioned between a trend that claims that adherence to certain applications of religion is the cause of delay, and another trend that claims that abandoning various religious applications is the cause of delay. Delay is linked to abstention from religion and failure to implement its laws and rulings. According to the view of the late Sheikh Al-Bouti, an angry God takes revenge on those who His misguided servants, that is, the delay in life is the result of negligence in worship and commitment to God’s rulings and governance, and as a result, the explosion of divine wrath. Do these peoples really need more worship? And can increasing worship actually solve the problems of these peoples? In short, is worship the cure, or is it the disease??

Thinking from the point of view of the first trend and the point of view of the second trend is, in all cases, with the intention of protecting the public interest, and the calm, balanced, rational answer is also for the public interest, which is attracted by these trends, which represent, on the one hand, the weight of modern human civilization, and on the other hand, the weight of the civilization of the past, which is good for all. Time and place!
There is a lot of strangeness in the thesis of the movement that pretends to be a believer and is valid for every time and place. What about the peoples who enjoy luxury and security, without practicing faith, who enjoy stability without rumination, and reason without transmission? These are atheist societies in the view of the sheikhs, and it is disbelief to be polluted by them because they are an abomination of Satan. And his gender, and how can any rational person explain the phenomenon of Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Al-Bashir’s religious republic, then the caliphate of Abu Bakr with its knives, machetes, and others? And the ignorance that destroyed them. Is God Almighty just, or is He conspiring with the Americans, Italians, and Germans, who discuss, criticize, develop, and respect the other opinion, because the existence of the other opinion is the essence of creating a new and correct outlook on life, an industry that does not allow the birth of arbitrariness and dictatorship, and this was one of the main features of Greco-Roman culture. , which catapulted the West to the heights, while the tribal culture (Saqifa Bani Saida), which determined the prevailing political and religious understanding in this region of humans, catapulted to the bottom.
Being guided by religion outside of its context and outside of its responsibility and tasks, that is, in projecting personal religion onto the general social situation, is the essence of the problem, and it is what led to falling into the pitfall of delay and fighting, which was the law before the true religion, and continued after the birth of the call in the form of fierce wars, which began before The wars of apostasy did not end with Karbala, and despite that, matters did not stabilize, but rather became more complex and disastrous, so that the peoples have now reached a state of near complete extinction and a state of marginality and isolation in the world, and thus exit from history. Whoever wants to remain in history must have a positive influence on its development. Especially in areas that have nothing to do with wars and occupations. These wars and occupations are an image of the dark, negative side of history. Wars have turned into an addictive practice, a war for the sake of war, a war to produce devastation and death. Addiction to war and the practice of violence was never a source of construction, and it did not give rise to Wars are the life of any human being who practices them.
All the peoples of the world have benefited from the lessons of history. Benefiting requires certainty in the need for reviews and lessons, and this in turn requires recognition of a mistake, inability, or weakness. However, these peoples do not feel wrong, because they are believers, and therefore committed to the will and will of God, meaning that the source of mistakes is God. ..God forbid! The believer is the will of God who does not make mistakes, so he does not believe that he makes mistakes, for God is right and the believer in Him is also right.
What should be done in this situation, which some people try to deceive in ways that include calling things by other than their names? This is how the name “setback” was given to defeat. Setback is a nickname for defeat. The concept of “setback” reduces the extent of self-responsibility, and thus reduces the need for learning. Thus, the Arabs did not learn from defeats. – Setbacks, and they did not benefit from the lessons of history. It was always just a “setback,” so there was no need for history lessons.
One of the forms of fraud is arming yourself with ignorance, lack of knowledge, and lack of experience, characteristics that have been allowed to occupy the mind, and of course there are reasons! The most important of which is the feeling that they possess the absolute truth with its originThe believer does not doubt the credibility of God. The believer does not doubt the divine promises of certain victory, even after a while. The believer is certain that cannot be shaken or doubted that God prefers him over others, because his faith is correct. God exercises loyalty and disavowal with him, and since God’s religion is Muhammadan, therefore he must support the Muhammadans… they are brothers with God. As a result, and for many other reasons, they did not learn and deserved the title of unlearnable and incapable of learning.