Your logic about theological unity is deeply flawed. And in order to support this flawed logic you are trying to trivialize the role of political unity. There was no major theological difference between Ali ibn Talib and Maawiya ibn Sufiyan or between Ali ibn Talib and Ayesha, however the number of Muslims killed in these two wars were more than the combined total of Lahore group ,Jama’at Ahmadiyya Al Mouslemeen and other straw men that you are beating up in your article.

In a way you are accepting that this theological unity ( as defined by you ) is completely useless in providing Muslims with any reasonable framework to come up with some agreed upon solutions for managing their collective lives in this world.

Its almost funny to think of the scenario: ” Well … you know …. we Muslims are theologically united .. but we just killed these 70,000 Muslims … because they did not agree with us politically .. But you know ..Allah is all knowing ….. he would understand the difference between theology and politics ”

Anyway, brother Farhan, there is nothing wrong with Islam. The theological unity as you are trying to define just does not mean anything. Every religion has certain principles that majority of the followers of that religion agree upon. It does not imply anything.

Please do not refer to ‘Esa bin Maryam (AS) as merely “Jesus”.

Thanks for your constructively critical comments. I can respect them.

I implicitly defined two types of unity: Theological and Political/Organizational. The Muslims masses are theologically united, more so than disunited. As I said, the issues of disagreement are relatively small.

Politically/Organizationally, the Muslims have not been under one leadership since…Mu’awiya ibn Abu Sufiyan(RA)?

Compare this to the Ahmadis; There are numerous break-away sects and groups and they cannot even agree if their founder was a Prophet or what even the basics of his teachings.

This article is a real disappointment. You are unable to define for yourself the meaning of “unity” or the context in which you want to use it. You are confusing the notion of unity with the agreement among the majority of the followers of a given religion on a set of shared beliefs. This is not just specific to Islam. And it is not necessarily a good or bad thing. More than one billion Roman Catholics share quite a bit of theological homogeneity. On the other end of the spectrum more than one billion Hindus exhibit quite a bit of theological diversity.

Then, you should accuse Qadiani Khalifa 2 Mirza Mahmud Ahmad, and NOT his father Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad sahib.
Just the way you will accuse Paul and NOT Jesus for stupid claims associated with Jesus.
Farhan, where is your sense of justice???
Animosity towards your enemy should NOT let you lose your sense of justice.
Farhan, like every human, you will die one day. And will be answering to Allah SWT for what you write on this blog. Don’t forget that.

You should buy Rosetta Stone and learn english!!

WE CAN WHAT WE WILL DO—CIRCA 1883