Arguments from the Quran and Hadith

(millat-e awja) was straightened and people began saying, ‘There is no god but God.’ Through this, the Prophet would open many blind eyes, deaf ears and closed hearts. Commenting on this hadith report, this Jamaat-eIslami-oriented writer says that the purpose behind God’s sending the Prophet Muhammad was iqamat-e deen. He adds that a very long time before the appearance of the Prophet Muhammad, the Torah had predicted that ‘until the deen became established’ the Prophet would not die. Then, in conclusion, he writes: These details fortify our conviction that the Jamaat-e-Islami has made no error in the objective that it has adopted for itself. Rather, this is the objective of the entire Muslim ummah, which the ummah is neglecting. To properly appreciate the hadith report that this writer refers to in order to back his argument, it is useful to turn to what two noted scholars of Hadith, Aini and Ibn Hajar had to say about this report. Allama Aini (d. 1451 C.E.) writes in his Umdat ul-Qari that it means that, through the Prophet, God would negate polytheism and affirm His oneness. He adds that the ‘crooked millat’ mentioned in this report are the Arabs. ‘The Arabs are called “crooked” because they changed the deen of their ancestor the Prophet Abraham and idolatry emerged among them,’ he comments. Hence, according to him, this hadith report indicates ‘establishing the Arab millat’ and