Arguments from the Quran and Hadith

Arguments From the Quran and the Hadith ‘taking them out of infidelity (kufr) and towards faith (iman)’. Likewise, in his Fath ul-Bari, Ibn Hajar (d. 1449 C.E.) opines that the ‘crooked millat’ mentioned in this hadith report are the ‘Arab millat’ and that they have been referred to here as ‘crooked’ because they had taken to idolatry. Their iqamat or ‘establishment’ means, he says, ‘taking them out of infidelity and towards faith’. From this explanation, it is clear that the meaning of this hadith report that the Jamaat-e-Islami-oriented writer provided is not correct. For one thing, this hadith talks about making people say ‘There is no god but God’. I do not know on what basis he took this to mean the ‘reform of the world’ and establishing ‘the Government of God’s laws’. Moreover, this hadith does not talk about the duties of the Muslim ummah. Rather, it is about an action that would be undertaken in the future by God through the Prophet. This hadith report mentions that God would not let the Prophet die before he made people say, ‘There is no god but God’. This is clearly about the Prophet. But if one were to argue from this that this applies to all the followers of Islam, it would mean that every one of us would have to undertake not to die until we have made all our opponents into Muslims! Will the writer of this article make such a promise? Now, this does not mean that reforming the world or establishing a government based on God’s laws is something separate from Islam. The fact, however, is that in Islam, rules for individuals, on the one hand,