Well here is where I think you guys are similar. You both make the assumption that why kafirs are so well of is because they get the life of this world and us the next, and two their system of governance is a reason for that.![]()
It seems to me that your idea of "kafirs" or the way you guys are using it as (non-muslims) generally and (west) more specificly, doesn't include the 5 something billion people who are not muslim, who live in abject poverty a great majority with less than 2 dollars a day, and under unsuccessful "secular" governments. So when you guys say kafirs have the wealth of this dunya and muslims don't, I say not really only a few countries are "rich" while the great majority are not so.![]()
As for why "secular governments work", no they don't really work, the great majority of governance in the world has been secular, look at the west and how many wars it has, how many depressions, look at communism an athiest system and how that worked out. Again in your guys's minds secularism equals economic prosperity which in reality it doesn't.
My last point is that your whole reasoning falls to the waist when you guys stop looking at the last 200 years as model for why the kafirs(west) gets the dunya and we get hereafter. When the middle east muslims where the most powerful, and richest empires in the world, for over a thousand years (should we go back to empires because its lasted longer and was more successful than what europe has now?), what would be the reason why europe was in abject poverty, constant warfare, and disease wiping out over a thirds of it's population. Did they get the worst of this dunya and also the hell of hereafter? Pretty sour deal if you look at. And all this successful secular democratic countries will they continue to be so? God knows, but I seriously doubt it. And will the muslims rise up economically, I don't know.
Let's not blame God why we are in the mess we are in by saying the Kafirs get this dunya, and we are meant to suffer in this dunya and have jannah because it's "God's fault".
You just wrote me an essay on everything I don't believe
Narrated Abu Huraira, the Prophet (saw) said, “The dunya is a prison for the believer and Paradise for the kafir (disbeliever),” [Sahih Muslim, vol.4, #7058]
I don't see why that substantiates a thesis on my beliefs and why they are wrong




