Ushering in the Hamd Culture

This meant that God had raised them according to His plan to end the undesirable age of adoring things other than God (shirk) and usher in the divine age of the adoration of God alone (monotheism). This initiative of the Companions of the Prophet was not to establish political dominance: it had a much broader significance; their actual mission was to establish a new civilization worldwide. It was to replace one civilization with another, rather than first replacing one government with another—that meant to replace a civilization based on the adoration of entities other than God with a civilization based solely on God’s adoration.