The Call of the Quran
1. Divine Planning
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negative attitude continues to mar Muslim relations
with others. Whereas, if they had received Islam as
a matter of divine guidance, they would have felt
that they had something to give to other nations.
They would have considered themselves as the
giver and the others as the taker. They would not
then have become obsessed with recovering the
irretrievable. The actual relationship between
Muslims and other nations should be that of
da’i
and
mad’u,
not of depriver and deprived. But the
result of holding the historical Islam to be the true
Islam is that other nations are now seen simply as
rivals. So long as this rivalry continues between
Muslims and other nations, no real work of Islamic
revival can be started.
It is not possible in the very first stage to cleanse all
Muslims of this antagonistic psychology. Yet at
least one such team should be assembled, the
members of which have rid themselves of this
mentality of rivalry. This transformation in thinking
will help them to regard other nations as their
mad’u,
instead of as their material competitors and
national adversaries. To establish the relation of
da’i
and
mad’u,
it is essential to forget all complaints and
