The Significance of Calling People to Tread the Path of God

who repent and mend their ways and make known the truth, I will certainly accept their repentance. I am the Ever-Relenting, the Most Merciful.” (2:159-60) If God’s will is what He has expressed in His Book, the Quran, it can be concluded without doubt that if Muslims individually do not reform themselves, and do not ask for forgiveness from God and fail to communicate God’s religion to non-Muslims—to their own compatriots as well as to people at the global level—they will not be able to escape divine retribution, even if they continue to worship day and night and never miss their additional morning afternoon prayers. The notion that the way to heaven does not pass through God’s creatures is highly erroneous. It should be clearly understood that the gates of heaven cannot be opened to us unless we have tried our best—even at the risk of undergoing the most undesirable trials—to close the doors of hell to the millions of non-believers who live around us. As we learn from the Quran regarding the prophets and their followers: Do you think that you will enter Paradise without having suffered like those who passed away before you? Affliction and hardship befell them and so shaken were they that the Messenger and the believers would exclaim, ‘When will God’s help come?’ (2:214) The following has been stated in the Quran in the words of the Prophet: ‘This Quran has been revealed to me so that through it I may warn you and whoever it reaches.’ (6:19) Those who shall warn the people of the Day of Judgement in this world, will stand as God’s witnesses against them ‘on that Day’ (40:51). Now the question arises as to who today stands witness to the peoples of the world, so that he may, as a follower of the Final Prophet, bear witness in the Divine Court that he had warned the people of the reality of life. Is there any group in the whole Islamic world which can be said to be performing the task of warning the nations of the world? If this is not the case, then does it mean that God has dispensed with the sending of His witnesses to the nations