The Call of the Quran
5. The call of da‘wah in the modern age
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spectacular miracles were depended upon to
convince the reluctant believer, this service is
nowadays performed by science, which has given
us empirical and inferential explanations for the
‘secrets’ of nature.
For the nations of today it continues to be desirable
that the call to true religion should be extremely
clear and understandable to all, in order that it may
have the greatest possible impact. Muhammad was
God’s final Prophet, and with the termination of
prophethood for all time, what should be the means
employed for the propagation of God’s message to
mankind, so that it should be irrefutable?
The modern revolution in thinking provides the
answer to this question. Through this revolution, it
is now possible to prove the teachings of True
Religion on the basis of established scientific
criteria. Of prime importance in this is the
methodology used. Research in various fields of
modern science has reached the conclusion that
inferential argument, which is employed by the
Qur’an, is in its nature just as valid as direct
argument. This means that at the present time
