The Call of the Quran
5. The call of da‘wah in the modern age
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battles) then only may you take this matter in
your hand. By God, therein (accepting the
Prophet despite his having enemies all
around, as their leader and extending him and
the Muslims their total cooperation) lies the
goodness of both this world and the next. The
Ansars said, “We accept him in spite of all
possible losses in terms of lives and wealth.”
Then they asked the Prophet, “O Prophet of
God, if we prove our loyalty, what shall we
receive in return?” The Prophet replied,
“Paradise.” Then they said, “Extend your
hand,” and when the Prophet did so, they all
(73 of them) entered into
bayah
with him.
It was people of such extraordinary courage and
awareness who put an end to the continuity of
shirk,
thus altering the course of human history. Today
once again the need has arisen to give the same
impetus to human history as was given by our
predecessors, when they initiated the age of
monotheism by putting an end to the age of
idolatry. Now we have to put an end to the age of
atheism in order to replace it with the age of
monotheism. This in an extremely noble task for
