The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page 291
The Holy Prophetsa 291 their partners, and that they had transgressed beyond measure in everything. It was said: اعْلَمُوا أَنَّ اللهَ يُحْيِ الْاَرْضَ بَعْدَ مَوْتِهَا 78 178. That is to say: Beware that the whole earth had died and would now be revived afresh by God. . In short, the Holy Qur'an charged the whole world with. Shirk paganism, misconduct and idol worship, which are the source of evils, and held the Christians and the Jews to be at the root of all evil and set out all the types of vices in which they indulged. The Qur'ān drew such a picture of the misconduct of the world that except in the case of the age of Noah, no other age appears to resemble it. . We have contented ourselves with citing only a few verses and would urge our readers to study the Holy. Qur'an carefully so as to discover how forcefully and with what effective words the Holy Qur'an has set forth that the whole world had been corrupted and had died, and that mankind was standing on the brink of hell. It urged the Holy Prophet [peace and blessings of Allāh be on him] to warn the whole world that it was in a serious condition. A study of the Holy Qur'ān reveals that the world was steeped in paganism, idol worship, misconduct and all manner of sin, and was sunk in the deep well of vice. . It is true that the Gospel mentions some of the misconduct of the Jews, but it nowhere said that the whole world had been corrupted and had died and had become filled with paganism and misconduct. Nor did Jesus claim that he was a Messenger to the whole world. He addressed the Jews, who were a small people and inhab178 al-Hadid, 57:18 [Publisher]