The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page 290
290. Essence of Islam-1 of their misconduct and false doctrines, they have been accounted very sinful in the estimation of God Almighty. . The word Warner that has been used in this verse concerning all the peoples, which means to warn the sinners and evildoers, is a sure indication that the Qur'ān claimed that the whole world had been corrupted and that everyone had given up the way of truth and good behaviour, inasmuch as a warning is meant for the disobedient and pagans and evildoers, and a warning is administered to offenders and not to the well behaved. Everyone knows that it is only the vicious and faithless ones who are warned, that it is the way of Allāh that a Prophet is a bearer of good tidings for the good and is a Warner for the evil ones. When a Prophet is designated as a Warner for the whole world, it would have to be accepted that by the revelation vouchsafed to that Prophet, the whole world has been held to be involved in misconduct. This is a claim which the Torah did not make in the case of. Moses, nor the Gospel in the case of Jesus, but was put forward only by the Holy Qur'ān. Then it was said: كُنتُمْ عَلَى شَفَا حُفْرَةٍ مِّنَ النَّارِ 177. Meaning that: Before the advent of this Prophet you had arrived at the brink of hell;. The Jews and the Christians were warned that they had perverted the Books of God and had led all the people in every type of mischief and misconduct, and the idol worshippers were charged with worshipping stones, men, stars, and the elements and that they had forgotten the. True Creator and were guilty of devouring the property of orphans and of killing children and of doing wrong to 177 Al-e-Imran, 3:104 [Publisher]