only stand proven in the eyes of God after he
had completed the
dawah
mission.And by not
completing the
dawah
mission, hewould have
failed to establish his real role and true position.
After the end of the prophethood, the followers
of the Prophet—the entire Muslim
ummah—
must assume the mantle of prophethood. That
is, they have to carry out the same task which
the Prophet carried out in his lifetime. The very
basis of their being called the followers of the
Prophet is the fact of their performing
dawah
work on his behalf, and their continuing to
convey the truemessage of the divine religion
in its original form. If they failed to perform
this mission, the words of the above verse of
theQuranwould become true, as it could have
become true for the Prophet on non-
performance of
dawah
work. That is, in the
eyes of God, they would lose the true position
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