The Call of the Quran
5. The call of da‘wah in the modern age
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composed poetry, he exclaimed, “What! After the
Qur’an?” This suggests that the Qur’an had made
an intellectual conquest of the people of its time.
Today, we are once again in need of an Islamic
literature, which is capable of capturing people’s
minds.
To produce works which will make the right kind of
impact in a world which is now flooded with both
religious and secular literature from a great variety of
sources may now appear well-nigh impossible. But
this is not the insuperable problem which it appears
to be, for God has His ways of turning the impossible
into the possible. In order to support the
da’i
of truth,
God has brought about a new revolution in human
history – the scientific revolution. This has given man
access to new possibilities of advancing arguments in
support of unseen realities. We can even go so far as
to say that it has become possible for us today to
present to our hearers miraculous arguments which
were earlier only acceptable when put forward by
prophets of God.
It is a great truth that the universe is a superb
miracle wrought by God. In its entirety, it presents
