Meaning of Ummah from the Viewpoint of Islam

The author believes that the Islamic meaning of Ummah has lost its significance among the Muslims and Ummah is only used to refer to ethnicity. This interpretation of Ummahhas brought about local and regional ethnic clashes after the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the world of Islam. Due to lack of understanding the true meaning of Ummah, the anticolonial movements in the world of Islam have tended to the Western and Eastern schools of thought – instead of the school of Islam – and have pushed Islam out of their cycle of life. The author emphasizes that the concept of Ummah must be re-extracted from the Qoranic texts. He has studied various verses of Qoran and reached this conclusion that Ummah refers to the unity of individuals and societies. This is in sharp contradiction with any disunion and separation of the Islamic societies. In other words, the more we study this concept, the more we will get closer to unity and solidarity.