THE RESPONSIBILITY OF MUSLIMS

According to the teachings of Islam, Muslims were bound to fulfil the responsibility of disseminating the message of God at a global level. A global infrastructure was necessary for the performance of this task, but Muslims failed to develop it. Then, God allowed the secular people to develop the necessary technology. This role for the secular people had been predicted in a tradition of the Prophet. According to this tradition, ‘In the future God will certainly make secular people support this religion.’ (Al-Bukhari).

The coming into existence of this global infrastructure through secular people, after the failure of Muslims to develop it, was exactly in accordance with this tradition of the Prophet. The Muslims were duty bound to understand this divine plan and to make full use of the modern infrastructure for global dawah work. But, for certain reasons, they have failed to understand this divine plan and, on the basis of self-styled issues, have unwisely entered into rivalry with secular people — even going to the extent of waging war and indulging in violence against them.