Manifestation of Prophethood in the Present Day and Age

MANIFESTATION OF PROPHETHOOD IN THE PRESENT DAY AND AGE culmination of 2,500 years of history. A group like theirs is required today. The only ones who can make up such a group are people who are intensely aware of the divine scheme which has been developing over the last one thousand years and have set their hearts on playing their role in it; who is so strong and unwavering in their commitment to the task in hand that they will go to any lengths, and make any sacrifice, to see it through to completion. Such is the true “party of God.” And it is the party of God that shall triumph.201 In his book, History of the Arabs, Professor Philip K. Hitti has written that “after the death of the Prophet, sterile Arabia seems to have been converted as if by magic into a nursery of heroes the like of whom both in number and quality is hard to find anywhere.”202 For Islam to reign supreme in the world, people’s entire way of thinking has to change. Islamic thought has gained ascendancy over every other system of thought. This was the task that God chose the Prophet and his companions to perform, and its immensity should not be underestimated. If the Prophet’s successors could continue to perform this task, it was precisely because they had been reared in this “nursery of heroes”, for it was only after surmounting numerous hazardous obstacles that they succeeded in establishing the dominance of Islam over polytheistic thought. Today Islam has lost its former dominance— this time to atheistic thought. For its ascendancy to be