The Task at Hand

A COMPARISON But as they move to later stages, when these events start to carry political importance, their language and judgments shift. What once seemed wasteful and flawed now becomes a “great good.” I will divide the task that lies before us in India into several points and present them under separate headings: 1. First, we must fulfil the personal duties and responsibilities required of every believer. This includes genuinely becoming worshipers of God, fulfilling the obligations that God has placed upon our lives and wealth accurately, and observing all the moral and transactional restrictions related to personal life as outlined by Islamic Shariah. 2. The second duty that Muslims in India have as a religious obligation is organization. The Quran emphasizes this with the words, ‘Hold fast to the rope of Allah’ (3:103). Its importance is so high that even if three Muslims are in a remote place, they are instructed to form a group and select one of them as their leader (Musnad Ahmad, Hadith No. 6647). Organization means that Muslims should not be divided into separate groups or scattered factions, but rather live as a united community. They should have an elected leader whom everyone obeys and a central institution from which they receive guidance. In the current situation, establishing an organization