CHAPTER ONE
Our First Customers
YE ARE THE BEST OF PEOPLES,EVOLVED FOR MANKIND,
ENJOYING WHAT IS RIGHT,
AND FORBIDDING WHAT IS WRONG,
AND BELIEVING IN ALLAH.
IF ONLY THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK
HAD FAITH,
IT WERE BEST FOR THEM:
AMONG THEM ARE SOME WHO
HAVE FAITH,
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PERVERTED TRANSGRESSORS.
(SURA AAL / 7 MRAAN) Holy Qur'an 3:LEAVE THEM ALONE?
The above Aayah (verse) is one of the most versatile verses of
the Holy Qur’an. I have heard dozens of lectures from our learned
brethren reciting the first half of the Aayah, stopping at the word
"Allah" followed by different dissertations. Indeed, 1 have done the
same with the exposition of over half-a-dozen different topics.
During the Question and Answer session at the end of my
lectures, in Newcastle,2 1 was asked as to my reasons for not
leaving the lews and the Christians alone in my discourses and
writings. In answer to this question, I read the first half of the
above verse and asked my audience to indicate the number of
- 1 urge my Muslim readers to memorize this verse, phrase by phrase, with its meaning so
as to open up a new world of Da’wah opportunities for them. - Newcastle: A town in Northern Natal. South Africa.