Islam began to lose its living spirit when its followers were led to believe that the Quranic term mohammadun or mohammadin referred solely to a historical personality.
Instead of recognising mohammad as a living faculty of awakened sense meant to emerge within every human being, it came to be understood merely as a mortal individual who lived in the seventh century Arabia. What was intended to be an inner living sense to be realised as our own intellect became an external distant dead figure buried in the soil of Arabia and is only meant to be remembered and revered.
