'Ummah facing troubles due to detachment from Islam'

ISLAMABAD - Most of the troubles faced by Muslim Ummah were because of their detachment from Islamic teachings, said Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, Head of the Guardian Council of Islamic Republic of Iran.
Jannati, who is leading a high-level delegation of the Guardian Council, was delivering a lecture on 'Muslim World and Contemporary Challenges', organised by Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) here on Monday.
He said that the difficulties faced by the Muslim Ummah, if described in a single sentence, were because of their ignorance of the true spirit of Islam and the distance they had developed with the teaching of the true religion.
He further said that the spiritual strength of Islam had enabled the forgotten tribes of the Arabian deserts to beat greatest powers of their times in a very short time. However, Jannati continued, after establishing strong empires in the heart of the world, Muslims forgot the true spirit of Islam and considered the government and authority as their foremost priority. It was as if they had thrown away their weapons against their enemies, who made full use of their ignorance towards Islam and defeated them at every front of life.
He said worst kind of evils prevailed in Muslim society during the Banu-Omayya and Banu-Abbas rule, which once were existing in the non-Muslim societies like moral and financial corruption, obscenity, cruelty and the like.
Now too, he went on, Muslim Ummah had closed eyes over the troubles of their fellow Muslims in Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq and the non-Muslims were taking the ultimate benefit of the situation.
He said Iran was a best example, against the powerful propaganda of the opponents, of the applicability of Islamic laws even after 1,400 years of its revelation. Today Iran was making progress in every field of life, including democracy, science, economy and military strength, which was a most practical example for the Muslim world to follow, he said.
He said Iran was been subjected to war for eight years, which devoured up their economy, shed the blood of millions of Iranian youth and hammered the very stability of the country. However, he continued, his country survived because she had the spiritual power of Islam.