Spirit of Islam, September 2018

In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful S’aad; By the Quran, full of admonition! Those who deny the truth are steeped in arrogance and hostility. How many generations have We destroyed before them! And they cried out when it was too late to escape. (38: 1-3) The Quran calls upon people to accept the realities that already exist in human nature. No statement of the Quran has so far been found to be against facts, which is sufficient to prove the veracity of the Quran. If people still do not accept the Quran, their rejection is certainly not based on arguments, but stems from the fear that they may lose their sense of self-importance if they accept a greater Truth. The Quran is the continuation of that call to the oneness of God which was propagated by various prophets throughout history. In every age, those who rejected this call were destroyed. The non-believers of the present age should learn a lesson from the fate suffered by nonbelievers of the past. They are surprised that a warner should come to them from among themselves. They say, ‘This is a magician, a great liar. Does he make all the deities out to be one God? This is indeed a strange thing. ’Their leaders departed, saying, ‘Walk away! Hold fast to your deities. This is clearly a conspiracy. We have not heard of any such thing in the old religion. This is nothing but a fabrication. Was the message sent only to him out of all of us?’ In fact, they doubt My warning; in fact, they have not yet tasted My punishment. (38: 4-8) The Prophet Muhammad is a great name today, because subsequent history has glorified him. But when, in the seventh century AD, he THE WORD OF GOD From The Scriptures The Quran is the book of God. It has been preserved in its entirety since its revelation to the Prophet of Islam between 610 and 632 AD. It is a book that brings glad tidings to humankind, along with divine admonition, and stresses the importance of man’s discovery of the Truth on a spiritual and intellectual level. Translated from Arabic and commentary by Maulana Wahiduddin Khan