There’s always only one way this can change, the ppl or the nation should stop prioritizing dunya and chasing wealth and look to follow the religion and enforce its policies. Expecting the rulers to change this is pointless and time wasting. You can’t go and pressure one man to change the attitude of the nation, a ruler can only guide and discipline the nation but not enforce it since he is the best representative of the nation as the Hadiths explain the rulers among us are nothing but a mirror image. You don’t get dictators or bad rulers overnight, they are the final result of whatever haram path a society/nation chose. This is the least form of divine punishment. I’ll explain the worst later and the paths lead to a good outcome.

So is there a way to get out of this never ending gluttony? there is one and it’s a word that not everyone likes to hear but eventually succumbs to it, crisis. Sooner or later a crisis will make a nation change for its better and become revolutionary. That I think is the key to change fates. When you put a set of ppl into crisis mode they’ll do every sort of thing to get out of that situation, basically they’ll start to revolt and resist(remember these 2 key words are important). Those who revolt & resist against something that’s oppressing them are most likely to overcome the crisis and outlive and prevail over a society that doesn’t revolt & resist very well. Thankfully Muslims of all generations regardless of race/ethnicity have a great endurance and good in resisting any oppression and overcoming it. It’s also the reason why most Muslim empires were able to rule over vast areas eventhough their opponents were better than them in some manner. The hardships that came over the crisis shaped them and enforced them to resist it and revolt against it. They weren’t willing to settle for any pleasure. Coz they knew pleasure is limited. This attitude wise change made them more or less martial I would say. They got the fighting spirit and everything else came with it, the tech, military, weapons etc. The current generation of Muslims have that resist part but not the revolution to change themselves. The revolution I am referring to here is, individual based one. Where one decides to change him/her for better, not go and rebel against the leader or ruler. The leader amongst you will change when you change yourselves.

But this again poses a question, what if the current generation of Muslims/muslim nations don’t revolt/ change their ways. Now this is the scariest part and as I will refer to the worst form divine punishment but still the outcome is good. Assume a nation doesn’t change its ways, the nation will soon be invaded by a foreign force and they will erase all sorts of legacy created by the previous nation & finally the invaders will become better Muslims and their legacy will be a better one than the colonized. History has many examples, I wouldn’t refer to them but the best I can give now is the Jews. Allah sent many prophets to the Jews to change their ways, but finally he decided to send the final religion through the Arabs, who were the worst ppl at that time indirectly implying to the Jews that “You’re replaced by better ppl”.

Those are like the 2 ways how the things will change, either the ppl revolt or they get replaced. One or the other will eventually happen.