Divine Planning

~ 37 ~ contemporaries, but for all time to come. Throughout the history of the Prophets he alone secured such extraordinary success that his prophethood soon left all controversy behind, reaching the stage of firm establishment referred to in the Qur’an as mahmud. His sayings as well as his achievements remained so perfectly preserved that there could be no room for any doubt. In the present world the da’is of the True Religion have an exclusive advantage such as no other da’i group had ever possessed in the earlier phases of Islam history. That is, we are in a position to present the call to monotheism before the world from the pre-eminent position of established prophethood. We are the inheritors of the certainties of established prophethood, while the followers of other prophets are still floundering in controversy. God has provided all kinds of favourable opportunities for presenting the divine message before the nations of the world. If, in spite of all such provisions, Muslims do not perform this task of bearing witness to the Truth, or if they engage in communal, political and worldly disputes with