What are the reasons that must be adopted to revive this Ummah?
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The Shaykh : If his saying (peace and blessings be upon him) in this hadith Sunan Abi Dawud 3462Sahih (Al-Albani) opens the way for me to enter into answering the one who came at the end of the question, which is: what is the path to reviving this Ummah that has been afflicted with humiliation and degradation that this Ummah has not suffered in any time before this? We say that when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) described the remedy in this hadith as returning to the religion, he proceeded from the like of the saying of the Exalted [Ar-Ra'd 13:11] and His saying (Mighty and Majestic) [Al-Anfal 8:53] So what is the cause by which Allah changed in us the blessing of strength, honor, and establishment in the earth that the Muslims were upon before that? Because we changed the blessing of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) and altered it, so we took hold of the causes of this world and left the jihad in the path of Allah (Mighty and Majestic). As a legal and cosmic result, if the Muslim does not support Allah (Mighty and Majestic), Allah will not support him, as is explicit in His saying (Blessed and Exalted is He) [Muhammad 47:7] Here I must pause. If Allah (Mighty and Majestic) has placed on the tongue of His Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) the treatment for this chronic disease that has afflicted the Muslims in all their Islamic lands, with great regret, and that is only returning to their religion, and the religion, as you know, is Islam, and the Lord of mankind said [Ali 'Imran 3:85] [Al-Ma'idah 5:3] I am pleased, on the occasion of this verse, with what Imam al-Shatibi (may Allah have mercy on him) mentioned in his great book al-I'tisam. He reported from Imam Malik that he said "Whoever innovates in Islam an innovation that he sees as good has claimed that Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) betrayed the message" and far is he from that. Then he said "Read the saying of Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He) [Al-Ma'idah 5:3]" He said (may Allah have mercy on him) "And the end of this Ummah will not be set right except by what set right its beginning. What was not a religion then will not be a religion today" We used to cite this established report from Imam Malik, the Imam of the City of Migration, that it is not permissible for a Muslim to innovate in Islam an innovation, no matter how slight it is, whether in morals, in acts of worship, or in beliefs. We used to argue with this report, relying on this noble verse, that Allah (Mighty and Majestic) completed His blessing upon us by completing our religion, which is Islam. So what is the matter with us today, when we have become far from Islam, not only in what is called the Sunnahs that are contradicted by innovations, but we have become completely far from Islam, not in these details or in these matters that some call secondary and not essential, but we have become far from the Islam that Allah chose for us as a religion, even in our judgments, even in our ideas and beliefs. So if we truly, earnestly, and sincerely want to apply this treatment that our Lord (Mighty and Majestic) prescribed on the tongue of His Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family), which is that we return to the religion