The Call of the Quran
1. Divine Planning
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contemporaries, but for all time to come.
Throughout the history of the Prophets he alone
secured such extraordinary success that his
prophethood soon left all controversy behind,
reaching the stage of firm establishment referred to
in the Qur’an as
mahmud.
His sayings as well as his
achievements remained so perfectly preserved that
there could be no room for any doubt.
In the present world the
da’is
of the True Religion
have an exclusive advantage such as no other
da’i
group had ever possessed in the earlier phases of
Islam history. That is, we are in a position to present
the call to monotheism before the world from the
pre-eminent position of established prophethood.
We are the inheritors of the certainties of
established prophethood, while the followers of
other prophets are still floundering in controversy.
God has provided all kinds of favourable
opportunities for presenting the divine message
before the nations of the world. If, in spite of all
such provisions, Muslims do not perform this task
of bearing witness to the Truth, or if they engage in
communal, political and worldly disputes with
