English book · The Alarm of Doomsday

The Concept of Complete Religion

English book, p. 49

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

THE APPEARANCE OF DAJJAL in order to enforce the “complete Islam” throughout the world. The second harm of this interpretation was that by adherence to this concept the nature of social relationships changed. According to Islam, Muslims and non-Muslims are dayee (addressor) and madu (addressee). However, this political interpretation changed this relationship into one of political rivalry. As a result, non-Muslims were no longer considered Muslims’ well-wishers and people to whom the divine message had to be conveyed. They instead became their rivals. In this way, a political culture instead of a dawah culture came into existence. It was as a result of this political interpretation that, throughout the whole world, Islamic action became synonymous with violent action. Activists began their work by employing peaceful means but soon found that overturning the rulers was not possible in this way. Therefore, they opted for a violent course of action to attain their objectives. They even went to the extent of holding suicide bombings lawful. When put into practice, the concept of political revolution thus resulted in nothing but so much hate and violence. Those who came under the influence of this political interpretation engaged themselves in a

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