The Call of the Quran
5. The call of da‘wah in the modern age
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maps.’’’ (E. F. Shumacher,
A Guide for the Perplexed,
London, 1981, p.9)
This instance is a telling reflection of modern
conditions. In today’s world when all sciences,
including history, physics, botany, zoology and
astronomy have been quite elaborately developed,
God has been ousted from the academic and
intellectual domain. Nowhere does the name of
God occur. A man of insight perceives the signs of
God everywhere – in every nook and cranny of the
earth, and right throughout the furthest reaches of
the universe. But in the empirical sciences, God is a
nonentity. Students of these sciences find no trace of
Him anywhere.
Given these conditions, the task of propagating the
message of the oneness of God is to re-inscribe the
name of God on the map of human thought. But it
would require a worldwide intellectual revolution
to spur man into coming to terms once again with
the truth about his Maker. Only then will man
understand and be convinced of the unity of God
and the reality of the Hereafter. Our predecessors
succeeded in breaking the dominance of idolatrous
