MUSLIM DEGENERATION AND ITS ONLY REMEDY

“And today we have perfected your Religion for you and completed our bounty upon you.”

The supreme purpose of mans creation had been fulfilled; good and evil had been clearly defined, a complete system of practical life had been revealed, the lineage of prophet hood and apostle hood had been terminated, and lastely, the duties that were formerly discharged exclusively by the Prophets had devolved as a collective mission upon the “Ummat-i-Muhammadia” (the Muslim people). This last fact has been clearly brought out in the following verses of the Holy Quran:

“O you (followers of Mohammad): you are the noblest of peoples, in that you have been brought out for (the benefit of) mankind. You enjoin the good and forbid the evil, and you believe in Allah.”

“And it is but meet that amongst you there should be a group devoted to inviting people towards righteousness and enjoining the good and forbidding the evil, and it is only those who do this that prosper.”
In the first verse, “Allah Ta’ala” has stated the reason why the Muslims are called “Khair-ul_Umam” (noblest of all people); it is because of spreading good and preventing evil. In the second verse, He has further clarified that only those people shall be exalted in life who fulfill that injunction. The command does not end here. It is stated in another place that the failure to accomplish this vital task will bring curse and gloom on its assignees. This inference is taken from the following verse:

“And those amongst the people of Israel who rejected Allah’s commands were cursed by Allah through the tongues of Dawood and Isa, son of Mariam. And the curse was because they rebelled against Allah’s commands and transgressed the limits and did not desist from the evil that they were doing and verily it was a grievous lapse on their part.”

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