No Interference

~ 106 ~ battles) then only may you take this matter in your hand. By God, therein (accepting the Prophet despite his having enemies all around, as their leader and extending him and the Muslims their total cooperation) lies the goodness of both this world and the next. The Ansars said, “We accept him in spite of all possible losses in terms of lives and wealth.” Then they asked the Prophet, “O Prophet of God, if we prove our loyalty, what shall we receive in return?” The Prophet replied, “Paradise.” Then they said, “Extend your hand,” and when the Prophet did so, they all (73 of them) entered into bayah with him. It was people of such extraordinary courage and awareness who put an end to the continuity of shirk, thus altering the course of human history. Today once again the need has arisen to give the same impetus to human history as was given by our predecessors, when they initiated the age of monotheism by putting an end to the age of idolatry. Now we have to put an end to the age of atheism in order to replace it with the age of monotheism. This in an extremely noble task for