Would secularizing earlier make Middle Eastern countries be in a better position?

questions
1. Would secularizing earlier make Middle Eastern countries be in a better position?

2.
If Islam becomes secular, would it offer people a better life in the long run?
3. For a country which has been religious for so long, isnt it hard to become secularized
so fast?

Works Cited

Zubaida, Sami. “Islam and Secularization.” Asian Journal of Social Science, vol. 33, no. 3, 2005,
pp. 438448. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23654381. Accessed 21 Feb. 2020.