Our First Customers 3At the very outset, in the verse introducing this treatise, Allah
confers upon the Ummah the honour, privilege and high status
of being “ The best of peoples evolved for m ankind,” i.e... evolved for (the good of) mankind.” This high honour
and status imposes upon us, the duty and responsibility of
selflessly sharing this noble status with the rest of mankind.
It is the Ahle-Kitaab — the People of the Book (the Jews and
the Christians), with whom we should begin with since they
have already been prepared for this Message. After all, numerous
Prophets have proclaimed the message to them. They do not
deny possession of a Scripture and boast the revelation of the
Tauraat, the Zaboor and the lnjeel1 by their respective
prophets. Accordingly, they are the fittest and best prepared of
people to accept the latest dispensation of Islam. They should
have been the foremost in submitting their will to the Will of
Allah in Islam — a renewal and a confirmation of the Revelation
already with them. Yet they have been the first to reject it: and
why the rejection? What are their considerations?
Nevertheless, their’s is not a totally lost case. Allah assures us
that among the Jews and the Christians are some who are
sincere, “ But the majority of them are perverted trans
gressors.”
TO THE GOOD CHRISTIAN
We must apply the best methods of getting our Message through
to both the goodly person as well as the rebellious, arrogant
person. To the goodly among them open the Holy Qur’an and
bring to light these verses of chapter three, beginning with verse
42: "
Behold! the angels said:
“ 0 Mary! Allah hath chosen thee
And purified thee — chosen thee
Above the women of all nations.1. “Tauraat, Zaboor and lnjeel: See part three of this volume for fuller explanatioa