The present state of Muslims has come about, not because of national or international conspiracies, but because they are subject to the laws of their Divine Maker like everyone else. The following verse of the Quran describes how God deals with nations, depending upon whether they are useful or useless to society at large.
He sends down water from the sky that fills riverbeds to overflowing, each according to its measure. The torrent carries along swelling foam, akin to what rises from smelted ore from which man makes ornaments and tools. God thus depicts truth and falsehood. The scum is cast away, but whatever is of use to man remains behind. (13: 17)
Another analogy is that of the purification of ores by heating them, so that whatever is impure first flows away, leaving behind a useful metallic residue.
A useless, or unprofitable group is like the scum from ore or the foam from water which has to be discarded, while the useful, giver group may be likened to the pure water, or pure metal which is left after the impurities have been washed away. It is the latter group which will attain stability in this world and give value, whether in a national or international setting.
The Quran likens a true human being to a tree. (14:24)
A true person is like a tree.
What are the qualities of a tree?
The tree has a very unique quality. The tree only gives, it doesn’t take anything from you. The tree is a giver member of our universe. It's not a taker member. The tree continuously supplies oxygen to us. But we receive no bill from the tree. The tree gives us wood. Its green leaves looks so wonderful! The tree gives flowers, fruits and many other things. The tree gives all this unilaterally. The tree never sends any bill to us. The tree follows the giver culture, and not a taker culture. If people adopt this model, a unique society would develop. But people generally do the reverse. People want to take. Nobody wants to give. This is why, there is hue and cry over rights. Everywhere people discuss their rights. Nobody talks of duties. The United Nations 1948 Human Rights Declaration was also based on rights.
People hardly speak of duties. In this universe, everything is based on duties. All parts of the universe are engaged in fulfilling their duty. None is clamouring for rights. Stars have no right. Planets have no right. Ocean, mountains and tree have no right. All are performing their duties. The universe functions on duty-based culture, while humans are engrossed in rights-based culture. This is why, in this world there is violence, intolerance and corruption. This very strange indeed. The culture of the universe is giver culture. Human beings also have to follow this. Just as we take the life-support system from the universe, we have to also take moral conduct from the universe. But here humans do the reverse. They follow the taker culture.
