We have never heard in all the history of humankind that...

We have never heard in all the history of humankind that Allah has sent a messenger to say to people: remain on your religion which you have inherited from the messenger that had come before me.[^1] All of the prophets have called for belief in all the messengers of Allah, so that no one might harm their prophethood or be excessive about their real position and give them the position of a deity.

Allah the Almighty says: The messenger believes in what has been revealed to him from his Lord and (so do) the believers; they all believe in Allah and His angels and His books and His messengers; We make no difference between any of His messengers; and they say: We hear and obey, our Lord! Thy forgiveness (do we crave), and to Thee is the eventual course .

Qur'an, 2:285 If we know that Islam is the last religion that Allah the Almighty has endowed His faithful people with, so its laws and rulings are valid for every time and every place, because there is no prophet to come after (S) and no divine book to come after the Holy Qur'an according to this saying of Allah: This day have I perfected for you your religion and completed My favor on you and chosen for you Islam as a religion .

Qur'an, 5:3 However, some Muslims, if not most of them, do not abide by the laws and rulings of Islam. They claim that these are difficult to carry out and that most (ordinary) people are unable to carry them out. Some others, who are learned people, say that it is necessary to develop the rulings according to the requirements of the modern life. They see ijtihad [^2] to be necessary in everything and claim that ijtihad is one of the virtues of Islam and one of its prides.

These learned people may influence the minds of many young students, especially as they pretend that they love Islam too much and are too careful to apply its rulings. These people justify the underdevelopment and deterioration of Muslims as they have not developed their religion from where it had been established fifteen centuries ago at a time where there was no means of transport except for mules and donkeys.

These people say that as for today we live in the age of rockets - whose speed exceeds the speed of sound, telephone, fax, and computer - through which man can contact with any place in the world within a few seconds.