The Prophet Muhammad A simple Guide to his Life
The Prophet of Islam and other Prophets
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Doomsday. If we ponder on this, we find that this
example applies in all respects to the Muslim
Ummah.
Such are their problems that the Muslim
Ummah
has been engulfed “in the belly of the
whale for more than a hundred years. Countless
attempts and innumerable sacrifices in terms of
wealth and precious lives have not succeeded in
leading them out of this quandary. When looked at
in the light of this
sunnah
of the Prophet, the only
reason we can find for their being in this plight is
that the
Ummah
has abandoned
dawah
work for a
very long period of time. The Muslims have
reached a stage where they have no idea of how
dawah
is to be performed. They engage themselves
in community work while calling it
dawah.
There is
only one way for them to come out of the “belly of
the whale” and that is to sincerely admit how
mistaken has been their total negligence of the duty
of
dawah.
This would be an act of repentance on
their part. The whole
ummah
must engage
themselves in performing
dawah
work anew
throughout the nations of the world and, if they are
to fulfill all its conditions, they shall have to bring
their task to completion.
