A COMPARISON

to establish an Islamic state or practically demonstrate Shariah laws before the people. Yet, it is this migration that makes the people deserving of punishment. From this, it becomes clear that Allah’s goal of establishing testimony over humanity is achieved solely through the effort of verbal propagation (tablighi jihad). If this were not enough, the Prophet’s followers would not have been considered deserving of punishment and destruction after his migration. Migration is not based on practical proof but rather on verbal proof. In fact, the migration of the final Prophet œ was somewhat different from that of previous Prophets. After his migration, his people were not immediately punished by divine punishment; instead, the disbelievers were later defeated by the swords of believers. During this time, upon reaching Madinah, the Prophet worked to establish a social system. However, the effort to create an organized system in Madinah was not aimed at completing the testimony. The work of testimony was already fulfilled to the fullest in Makkah, and the completion of this task is evident because, before the migration, they were addressed as “O disbelievers” (Chapter al-Kafirun). This term does not refer to inherited disbelief but to the disbelief that becomes evident after the necessary completion of testimony. The truth is that the guilt of the polytheists of Makkah