QURANIC WISDOM

been able to make any positive achievement. If Muslims were to adopt this wisdom, they would realize that the entire modern civilization is an example of this tradition of the Prophet: “God will certainly make secular people support this religion” (Sahih Bukhari). The modern civilization is a supporter of Islam and not an enemy of Islam. Because Muslims are too engrossed with irrelevant aspects, they could not discover the modern civilization as a supporter of Islam. If they sort out the irrelevant aspects, they would realize that in reality this civilization provides support to the religion of Islam. The greatest practice of the Prophet that we need to revive today is to discover prophetic wisdom and apply it to our present circumstances. God has ushered in a new age in which the equation between people has changed. At the time of the Prophet, some people had been enemies of Islam while others were its friends. In the present age, this equation has come to an end. Today if there are Muslims on one side of the equation, there are supporters on the other side. The entire world has become a supporter of Islam. A new revolution has been brought about in the world, which has given us communication, religious freedom, openness, all of which are supportive for the cause of Islam. There was a process which started at the time of the Prophet and this has culminated as modern civilization today. According to a tradition of the Prophet: “A time will come when you will advance to a place where there will be a fort with closed doors. You will not use swords or lances. Rather you will just say La ilaha illallah and the doors will be opened up” (Sahih Muslim). Right now, I am speaking at a place and my voice is potentially reaching the entire world. Thus this tradition means that an age of communication will dawn in the future which would open up all doors for Islam. Muslims of the present day should revise and reassess their actions and plans. I pray to God to guide us and accept us for Paradise in the Hereafter. o (Transcript of the lecture delivered through Skype by Maulana Wahiduddin Khan at the ‘Selected Members Camp’ of the Students Islamic Organisation of India (SIO), Headquarters of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, New Delhi, 19 July 2016.) It was due to Prophet’s wisdom that he reduced into skirmishes the wars waged by the Makkans. A fullfledged war lasts at least for six days. There is no such war in the life of the Prophet.