Where Does an Erroneous Interpretation of the Deen Take Us?

Where Does an Erroneous Interpretation of the Deen Take Us? were only to the extent of preparing the ground, such as the Prophet Abraham. Some launched, in practical terms, revolutionary movements but their work ended before establishing the Divine Government, such as the Messiah. And some of them took this movement to the stage of success, such as the Prophet Moses and the Prophet Muhammad’. It is as if, according to this explanation, the Prophet Abraham, the Friend of God, was a ‘partial prophet’ who could not take the revolutionary movement of Islam to the stage of success. From this it is readily apparent how even a minor deviation from the truth can lead to enormous blunders. An advocate of the Jamaat-e-Islami school of thought once sought to rectify this blunder by claiming that it is wrong to believe that all the prophets of God did not establish an Islamic Government. Writing in the July 1965 issue of the Jamaat’s journal Zindagi, he insisted that, in fact, all of the prophets had established such a Government. In his words: It is possible that people will think this to be novel, but if we keep in front of us the practice (sunnat) of God with regard to the prophets that the Quran talks about, then no doubt remains about the veracity of this assertion. This person said that if the history of the earlier prophets had been carefully protected, it would have been possible to highlight ‘all the details of their