20. Universal Mission

The chapter 25 of the Quran opens with this verse

‘Blessed be He who has revealed the criterion (the Quran) to His servant that he may warn the nations.’ (Ta Ha, 25:1)

The word of al alameen (nations) has occurred in the Quran 73 times. This shows that the message of the Quran is a universal message. The Quran wants to awaken universal outlook in its followers. God sees the whole universe with one and the same eye. God desires that universal outlook comes to develop in His slaves also. They should not live in the shell of restrictions rather they should come to develop a magnanimous nature in themselves.

How will this universal outlook come to develop in a man? This will surely come to develop ‘through dawah ilallah’. That is, through discharging the duty of conveying the message of God to His slaves. The study shows that the Quran discusses only a few hundreds legal issues. While in the Hadith hundreds of thousands legal issues have been discussed. And in Fiqh their number reaches to lacs. On considering, we come to know that all these issues are related particularly to the Muslim community. In this long list of commandments there is only one command as is general in its nature and it is dawah  ilallah. That is, to convey the message of God to all His servants. This status of dawah makes it a universal command. If other commandments are Muslim-oriented commandments the status of dawah is that of human-oriented command.

When the Muslims will do dawah work in its true sense they will naturally come to develop a universal outlook in themselves. Both, their thinking and planning will carry universality. A feeling of sympathy for all will well up in them. Instead of making their separate identity they will think of all human beings. This universal temperament will change all their affairs into universal ones.