Muslims despair of reforms and feel helpless in the face of waves of corruption.

Muslims despair of reforms and feel helpless in the face of waves of corruption. They are so burdened with the heavy years of oppression and evil Colonialism that they cannot deal with their pitiful backwardness in the fields of science, politics, economicsetc. The majority of Muslims choose resignation to reality, keeping silent vis-a-vis corruption and decadence.

Neglecting the divine order to enjoin good and forbid evil, they have left the arena to the enemies of Islam, and the preachers of ignorance and corruption. An analytical look at the social fabric of Muslims and their psychology sums up the causes of despair and resignation to the current way of life, on the following points: Some people feel despair due to an objective feeling that can be traced to the individual's psychological disorder. Some people are melancholy by nature.

The root cause of this condition is private concerning the individual himself; but, then, it engulfs the whole society colouring its altitudes and positions. People's ignorance of the course of history. This ignorance of, or misunderstanding of, human history which is subject to ebb and flow, advancement and regression, naturally yields a human attitude that is far from being real.

Such people can think only within the boundaries of the present conditions and circumstances enveloping their communities. How can they know that what they are witnessing is only a fleeting, passing phenomenon, and a transitional case of history, that repeals itself now and then, like the bubbles that are born on the lake bottom, then rise to the surface and burst? "Let not control in the land, of those who reject faith, deceive you. A brief enjoyment! Then their abode is hell.

And evil is the resting-place." Holy Qur'an (3:195-196) What we see today as an awe-inspiring, magnificent edifice will become, in years, decades or centuries to come, a dilapidated entity, a trace, or a story kept in the depths of history records or museums. If these people only know this fact, if they know that history is always in constant motion, that it repeats itself, their view of life will certainly change.

Truthful are Allah's words: "Indeed there have been examples before you; so travel in the land and see what was the end of the deniers. This is a clear statement for people, and a guidance and an admonition to the pious. And be not weak-hearted, nor grieve, and you will have the upper hand if you are faithful.