I suppose every believer has asked this question to himself or others many times: why Muslims are torn into pieces? Why are there sects, groups, communities, orders that are not contesting for good but fight and vilify, slander or even excommunicate each other? Why ironically do Muslims have enough of enemies as themselves? Why are they at each other''s neck, being in war and slaughtering each other? Don''t we all claim that Islam is the religion of unity, unification?
Is it possible that any believer could be indifferent to this? If so, then he or she must check their faith, mustn''t they? If a group of people, order, community wants to be different and feels proud for being different and considers itself as the absolute source of the truth, isn''t this problematic? If a group of them wants to seem different through its discourse, rituals (I cannot call it prayers) their dresses, isn''t the only purpose here to be in divergence?
Then what should we do? Nothing? Shall we simply leave everybody with their own truth perception? Should we not bother ourselves with the problem of divergence? Shouldn''t some of us bother, at least?
Divergence means to be different in perception or to be in opposition. Both of the meanings are inherent in the human nature. Every single human being is distinguished slightly in their creation from others, in terms of time, space, ethnicity, color, knowledge, intelligence…. To be different results in a different perception as this cannot be an absolute sense of the objective knowledge. Everyone knows something to the extent of his or her scope. Thus, the disagreement or divergence as such a condition is natural and essential. It''s also a blessing because every single standpoint is an opinion and different opinions yield to different types of knowledge. Different types of knowledge generate different cultures and the human being achieves the opportunity for recognizing the world in all its aspects and benefiting from it at the optimum level. As a result, he reaches to the means of comprehending his own meaning and agent of his creation. He realizes his own deficiency.
That is to say, the initial two dimensions of the divergence, to be different or the difference in perception is due to the nature and creation. It''d be meaningless if people thought all the same way and interpreted things in the same way. Islam maintains the natural aspect of things because it''s the religion of natural creation.
Each of the last 5 terms refers to opposition or antagonism in different tones. If there is any divergence at a level of opposition or antagonism, it''s impossible that both sides are fair and righteous. This is the type of divergence which the religion criticizes and requires us to remove its evil.
Due to the natural and creational divergence of thoughts, it''s inconceivable that there would be no schools of thoughts or sects. It is quite understandable that people circle around their inspirational scholar and prefer him to others in affection. That''s how the Islamic jurisprudential sects and sufi sects and orders occurred. However, if proponents of a certain sect claim privilege and absolute truth and call others necessarily erroneous, then it''s their own erroneous deviations from the Book.
We will elaborate the topic soon Inshallah.