Calling People To God

only stand proven in the eyes of God after he had completed the dawah mission. And by not completing the dawah mission, he would have failed to establish his real role and true position.

After the end of the prophethood, the followers of the Prophet—the entire Muslim ummah— must assume the mantle of prophethood. That is, they have to carry out the same task which the Prophet carried out in his lifetime. The very basis of their being called the followers of the Prophet is the fact of their performing dawah work on his behalf, and their continuing to convey the true message of the divine religion in its original form. If they failed to perform this mission, the words of the above verse of the Quran would become true, as it could have become true for the Prophet on nonperformance of dawah work. That is, in the eyes of God, they would lose the true position 32