The Call of the Quran
2. The Call to God and Unity
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name of Islam, but in fact nothing is more un-
Islamic in the world of God than this lamentable
disunity.
The call to God is basically the title of the Islamic
mission to convey the message of God to non-
Muslims. (The technical nomenclature for the same
task to be carried out among Muslims is reform or
islah).
In case one is extending the message of Islam
to a non-Muslim, he will neither explain the
implications of
aamin bil sirr or aamin bil jahr,
(i.e.
pronouncing aamin in prayers loudly or silently),
nor will he touch upon peripheral issues on which
there is no consensus among Muslim sects. In a
controversial situation, the only option for the
Muslim will be to present to his addressee the
principal tenets of Islam, like belief in one God, or
tawhid,
Prophethood, the life hereafter and human
equality. In short, the general call to Islam entails
the popularisation of the purely basic teachings of
the religion.
It is an accepted fact that there is no contradiction in
the fundamentals of religion. On the contrary, there
are considerable differences among the people of
