“Islam must dominate,” said Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, “and not be dominated.” Yet many people, both Muslim and non-Muslim, have noticed that Islam has failed in its quest to dominate the world, but few have been willing to admit this failure. Instead, the formulation of excuses for this failure has become a venerable tradition in Islam, and a veritable cottage industry in our own day. And when Islam fails, as The Tragedy of Islam: Failure and Excuses explains in detail, the foremost remedy for this failure is fraught with dangers for unbelievers.
The Muslim question-and-answer site IslamWeb.net asserts that “anyone who wants to be happy in this worldly life and the Hereafter should stick firmly to the Quran and the Sunnah and abide by what is in them, performing the orders and avoiding the prohibited matters.… So, anybody who embodies the attributes mentioned in these verses will be successful in this worldly life and the Hereafter. He will live honorably and die honorably.”
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