Ikhwan-e-Rasool: Brothers of the Prophet

FINAL DIVINE CALL best community that has ever been brought forth for the good of mankind.’ (3:110) Ikhwan-e-Rasool is also indirectly alluded to in a verse of the Quran, which reads: ‘We shall show them Our signs in the universe and within themselves until it becomes clear to them that this is the truth.’ (41:53). This verse is like a prediction that a time will come when the signs latent in nature will appear and will be a source of higher realisation for the seekers after truth. Subsequent events tell us that the present scientific age is referred to here. Indeed, in this age, such facts about the world of nature have come to man’s knowledge as are undoubtedly a source of realisation. Keeping this reality in view, it would perhaps be correct to say that the brothers (and sisters) of the Prophet will be those believers who, born in the scientific age, will derive intellectual nourishment from scientific discoveries and thus attain high levels of realisation. These will be the people who will perform excellent dawah work at the global level in the final stage of human history. One example of this matter is the phenomenon of the solar and lunar eclipses. An eclipse obscures the reflected light from one celestial body by the passage