Islam's Divisions

The Tribe has always been an important concept in Arabian and Islamic history, creating divisions among its dwellers and followers. How has this caused problems in the history of Islam?

In the lifetime of Muhammud he constantly strived to make the Islam religion a religion of one, to be whole and when Muhammud died that kind a fell apart. Islams a religion did not fall apart, but the way they went about spreading the religion was not a good thing. After forcing tribes to take up the Islamic religion by means of threatening them to pay money or practice, the Islamic wasn't truly one anymore. Once Muhammad died, Caliphates rose up and there became a new way of passing down rule; this was the first big division in the Islamic world; authority. With Muhammud and the Patriarchal Caliphs intergrated themselves with the Islamic community, and their religion was founded on an unprecedented egalitarianism. After the death of Muhammud, tribes became a big issue, because not all the tribes that were under Islamic rule actually chose to be. They were forced by the new rulers in the Umayyad Dynasty to take up Islam as a religion. It created tension and division between the tribes, leaving Islam to really not be a community and a closely followed religion. It led to war and violence, if certain tribes didn't agree with the Islamic religion and didn't agree to pay the rulers, they would be severely punished.

Life in the Islamic world at first seemed great, it seemed to blossom quite rapidly and become an engaging religion. But when constants (Muhammud) weren't there to look to anymore, a division happened and the Islamic history changed into something quite threatening and violent. It changed into something completely different (I think) than what Muhammud wanted to create.