Seeking knowledge of Islam is a necessity for the mandatory tenets of faith, acts of worship, and legal rulings of daily life. Aside from that, it is a most noble pursuit towards enlightenment and education while at the same time being a means of worship in and of itself. Personally, the fire of seeking ‘ilm had died out as life settled and issues became more taken for granted. And although I would still make some efforts towards accruing knowledge, I was less and less driven. Yet now that I find myself in a position of endeavoring to rediscover Islam from the ground up, it has rekindled itself as it once was in my long lost youth. There is now a purpose more intense than the generic ones. I have thus far studied informally for many years and experienced much by way of different ideogologies, methodologies, and Islamic cultures, practices, and trends. I have seen the confusion, disputes, and strife amongst my people, and it seems knowledge, far from simply being an academic exercise, is in fact a practical and necessary tool for the unification I wish to see for our Ummah. It is a blessing that at a time I should be settled for the rest of my life into a rote pattern of thought and practice that I have been given the chance to again feel the curiosity and wonder of youth. It was not deliberate, but now that I face the rebirth I am excited as I once was…

Unity is a part of the fitrah. Like the pure and natural belief in One God, it is simple and satisfying. Yet there are many challenges facing the unification of the Muslim Ummah. Aside from human passions and faults which unintentionally cause it to be rent, there are intentional efforts from those who hold the belief that one ought NOT to unify with certain elements, some advising only a disunity of mind whereas others extend it towards an almost complete and physical disassociation. We know that Islam enjoins us to be one with the Truth, yet so many claim to have the Truth and reject all else, it is difficult to actualize the balance which Islam perfects of reconciling clarity with magnanimity. At some point the balance is off and the Ummah reduced to fragments. It is for the remedy of our current situation, alongside the personal default element of trying to win the pleasure of The Lord, that The Islamic Unification Theory was born. It will most surely take a lifetime, if not more, and will only succeed if Allah Wills…