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The division and weakness of the ummah is no doubt a sad state of affairs, and this has not come about except due to Muslims being plagued with innovations, sins and desires, such that they are no longer holding on to the rope that the likes of Abu Bakr and ʿUmar (رضي الله عنهما) and the Companions (رضي الله عنهم) were holding onto, and no longer receive aid and victory from Allāh that was given to the Companions. As a result of this slow, gradual decline and inner rot, the non-Muslims managed to gain ascendancy, divide and carve up Muslim lands, and create divisive nation states in which every state has to put its own interests first. Then there appear groups such as the Khārijites from within, who make a bad situation worse, by stirring sedition from within, and then there are the Rāfiḍah, who have their designs and goals from the outside. So the situation becomes even more dire and emotions overwhelm people who are not grounded in knowledge, so they speak on the basis of ignorance, extremism and exaggeration.