UNDERSTANDING THE ISSUE
English book, p. 225
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
UNDERSTANDING THE ISSUE struggle to implement this entire system is the mission entrusted to the faithful. However, there is not a single explicit statement in God’s Book from which this viewpoint can genuinely be derived. The verses typically presented as evidence will be analyzed in detail later. This was the fundamental flaw of this argument. In practice, too, no person throughout the entire history of the Ummah launched a “comprehensive revolutionary movement” in this way. Muslims have spread across many regions worldwide and been engaged in spreading the call to Islam, which in many places later led to the establishment of Islamic governance. However, they never started their efforts with the goal of creating an “Islamic revolution” or establishing a “Divine government.” Attempts to cite historical examples to support this are simply fabrications, not accurate history. If someone claims that all these efforts were incomplete or that these individuals lacked full understanding of the religion, such explanations only admit to their own errors. It is better to acknowledge the limits of one person’s ideas than to consider the entire history of Islamic dawah incomplete. The gap in this thought I mentioned earlier is so clear that any fair-minded person who engages directly with the Quran and Sunnah cannot help but see the

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