Muhammad a Prophet For all Humanity
17. Manifestation of Prophethood in the Present Day and Age
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unwavering in their commitment to the task in
hand that they will go to any lengths, and make any
sacrifice, in order to see it through to completion.
Such is the true “party of God.” And it is the party
of God that shall triumph.
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In his book,
History of the Arabs,
Professor Philip K.
Hitti has written that “after the death of the
Prophet, sterile Arabia seems to have been
converted as if by magic into a nursery of heroes the
like of whom both in number and quality is hard to
find anywhere.”
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For Islam to reign supreme in the world, people’s
entire way of thinking has to change. Islamic
thought has to gain ascendancy over every other
system of thought. This was the task that God chose
the Prophet and his companions to perform, and its
immensity should not be under-estimated. If the
Prophet’s successors were also capable of
continuing to perform this task, it was precisely
because they had been reared in this “nursery of
heroes”, for it was only after surmounting
numerous and hazardous obstacles that they
succeeded in establishing the dominance of Islamic
