The Role of Ulama in the Modern Age

The Issue of Mindset the Prophet. So, how can it succeed today, fourteen hundred years later? The Ulama are not aware of the vast transformations that have taken place in human thought in the modern age. They have no real idea of the modern mind. However, it is precisely the task of understanding and reforming the modern mind that is Ulama’s most pressing task—one which they should have taken up at the very outset. Without reforming people’s thinking, no sort of practical political effort can ever succeed. THE ISSUE OF MINDSET People act according to their bent of mind. If their way of thinking is right, their actions will also be right. The role of the Ulama is to direct the mindset of people towards right thinking. P eople act according to their bent of mind. If their mentality is deviant or ungodly, naturally, their actions will reflect the same. Conversely, if their way of thinking is right, their actions will also be right. Before the advent of Prophet Muhammad, the fundamental problem facing humanity was the dominance of a deviant, ungodly mindset. This