The Call of Dawah in the Modern Age March-April

universe. They were then exhorted to look at and ponder over the omnipresent signs of their Maker. As the Quran was revealed before the age of science, the signs referred to therein were considered sufficient proof of the truth of the Prophet’s teachings. The Quran, having been handed down to posterity as a work of eternal truth, continued to be read in the new age of science—when miracles were no longer demanded as proofs of either natural or supernatural claims—as God’s signs had passed the test of scientific scrutiny. Whereas in ancient times, unusual and spectacular miracles were depended upon to convince the reluctant believer, this service is nowadays performed by science, which has given us empirical and inferential explanations for the ‘secrets’ of nature. For the nations of today, it continues to be desirable that the call to true religion should be extremely clear and understandable to all, in order that it may have the greatest possible impact. Muhammad was God’s final Prophet, and with the termination of prophethood for all time, what should be the means employed for the propagation of God’s message to mankind, so that it should be irrefutable? The modern revolution in thinking provides the answer to this question. Through this revolution, it is now possible to prove the teachings of True Religion on the basis of established scientific criteria. Of prime importance in this is the methodology used. Research in various fields of modern science has reached the conclusion that inferential argument, which is employed by the Quran, is in its nature just as valid as direct argument. This means that at the present time human knowledge has accorded the Quranic methodology (indirect argument) exactly the same importance as that applied to the world outside the sphere of religious learning, i.e. the sciences and other secular disciplines. In the wake of latter-day developments in modern science,