The Call of the Quran
5. The call of da‘wah in the modern age
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antagonists of the kind arrived at in Hudaybiyyah.
By making this sacrifice of their own volition,
Muslims will be able to divert other communities
from the material field of encounter to the sphere of
purely intellectual activity. In the first phase of
Islam, this change was brought about by the
Muslims unilaterally laying down their arms; now
this change can be effected by unilaterally putting
an end to the campaign for Muslim rights.
The sacrifice of national interests is difficult even to
contemplate. Yet in such a loss there is gain. The
day Muslims acknowledge this, a chain of events
will be set in motion leading to the victory of Islam.
In the material sphere Muslims may have
conventional weapons as opposed to the modern
weapons of other communities, but in the
intellectual field they are equipped with the Truth.
The prejudice and bigotry which are the mainstay
of other communities can never withstand Reality
for long.
According to the Qur’an, God taught man by means
of the pen. This underscores the significance of
literature for the purpose of the Islamic call. In
