Real Revolution — Page 143
143. Now these verses indicate that at the time of the first advent the religion was established in the world on a firm basis. The stage to make it dominant over all other religions coming later at the time of the second advent, the mission having a twofold object: (i) to bring people to Islam with persuasion on the basis of reason and argument, and (ii) to eliminate other cultures and civilizations, to make the Islamic civilization prevail everywhere in the world. This is why Allah has said that He raised the Promised Messiah so that He should make Islam prevail over all other religions. . Means for bringing about this dominance. It now remains to be seen by what means this dominance can be brought about. If dominance is taken to mean dominance of the teaching, in the sense that some people from the followers of every other religion would come over to Islam, it cannot be accepted as an adequate interpretation, for the co ning over of a tew men from the rest of the religions can hardly justify the use of the expression found in the text. The dominance that is here spoken of is the same kind of dominance which the. Western type of culture holds over the world today. Our task thus is to make the Islamic philosophy of life prevail in the world at any rate, to, the same extent Western civization prevails in the