The Great Responsibility
The Quran says in chapter six:
Say, ‘What counts most in testimony?’Say,
‘God is my witness and your witness. This
Quran has been revealed to me, so that I
maywarn you (people) and all whom it may
reach. Do you really bear witness that there
are other gods besides God?’Say, ‘I myself
do not bear witness to any such thing.’Say,
‘He is only one God, and I disownwhatever
you joinwithHim.’
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The Prophet Muhammad, may peace be upon
him, was sent as a ‘warner’ for the whole of
humanity,
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but he lived on for only 63 years.
Now the question arises as to how, after he
had passed away, his message was to be
conveyedwhen hewas no longer in thisworld.
The answer to this question has been given in
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