You know how anorexics suffer from a kind of body dysmorphia where they have a wrong perception of their weight and always think they need to be skinnier?
Sometimes it feels like there is a segment of our Ummah that suffers from a sort of religious dysmorphia, where they have a wrong perception of their duties; always thinking that they are not “Islamic enough”; even when they are fulfilling all that is actually required of them.
And then there is that segment which seems to feel that they themselves are the only ones who are “Islamic enough” and everyone else is too lax. Like the equivalent of an overweight person trying to impose anorexia on others.
Of course, there are also those who seem to feel that Islam can only exist when it is enforced by the state. Individual adherence means nothing; if you pray and fast it is still an inadequate version of Islam, it can only be true Islam if the government compels you to pray and fast.
I really feel like these attitudes are indicative of deeper psychological issues. You can pray, fast, pay zakat, make Hajj, adhere to the Sunnah, abstain voluntarily from engaging in Riba, so on and so forth; avoid Haraam as much as you can; but still imagine that you are not practicing Islam as required; and you think that only state compulsion will resolve the sense of inadequacy in your mind. But of course it wouldn’t. It really is a kind of mania. Like the three men who felt that the ‘ibadah of the Prophet was not sufficient for them. Something inside your mind is driving you to feel that no level of devotion is enough, no degree of Islamic-ness is satisfactory.
Something is wrong here. Always strive to improve and increase your Imaan and your taqwa, yes; but your Deen should not make you angry and contemptuous of yourself and your fellow Muslims.