The impacts of Heresy and extremism on human societies

Abstract

There is no doubt that heresy is the most dangerous matter confronting not only the Islamic nation, but the humanity as a whole, which deduced grievous consequences to the mentioned nation and to its glorious civilization. Islamic Ummah (nation) was involved with this matter since ancient periods, as it was propounded in the early days of the prophetic mission by some extremists. Then in the period of Ali’s caliphate this matter caused bloodshed among the Muslims. In the contemporary, heresy takes place in specific circumstances generally it becomes the result of oppression and callousness of the devoted Muslim youths when they face bad behaviors and debauchery in their societies. According to scholars, heresy has two sides-legitimate and illegitimate. Heresy causes troubles in the Islamic ideology and opens valves to the debates and as a result, it makes the scholars become clown of everyone even the companions of the prophet (PUH), and the great pillars of Islam are blamed which leads the nation to darkness and illiteracy.