THE SUPREMACY OF THE MORALITY
OF ISLAM IN THE WORLD
 Allah
announces that those who serve him purely, without associating
any of His creatures as divinities besides Him, and do good
works to win his favor, will be endowed with power and authority.
Allah has promised those of you who believe and
do right actions that He will make them successors in the
land as He made those before them successors, and will firmly
establish for them their religion with which He is pleased
and give them, in place of their fear, security. “They
worship Me, not associating anything with Me.”
Any who are disbelievers after that, such people are deviators.
(Surat an-Nur: 55)
In a number of verses, it also says that it is
a divine law that those servants who are faithful and live
the true religion in their hearts will be made the inheritors
of the world:
We wrote down in the Psalms, after the
Reminder came: “It is My righteous servants who will
inherit the earth." (Surat al-Anbiya’: 105)
We will leave you the land to live in after
them. That is the reward of those who fear My station and
fear My threat. (Surah Ibrahim: 14)
We destroyed generations before you when
they did wrong. Their messengers brought them the Clear
Signs, but they were never going to believe. That is how
We repay evildoers. Then We made you their successors on
the earth so We might observe how you would act. (Surah
Yunus: 13-14)
Musa said to his people, “Seek help
in Allah and be steadfast. The earth belongs to Allah. He
bequeathes it to any of His servants He wills. The successful
outcome is for those who do their duty.” They said,
“We suffered harm before you came to us and after
you came to us.” He said, “It may well be that
your Lord is going to destroy your enemy and make you the
successors in the land so that He can see how you behave.”
(Surat al-A‘raf: 128-129)
Allah has written, “I will be victorious,
I and and My messengers.” Allah is Most Strong, Almighty.
(Surat al-Mujadala: 21)
Together with the good news announced in the verses
above, Allah has made a very important promise to believers.
He reveals in the Qur’an that the religion of Islam
was sent to humanity to be superior to all religions.
They desire to extinguish Allah’s
Light with their mouths. But Allah refuses to do other than
perfect His Light, even though the disbelievers detest it.
It is He Who sent His Messenger with guidance and the True
Religion to exalt it over every other religion, even though
the idolators detest it. (Surat at-Tawba: 32-33)
They desire to extinguish Allah’s
Light with their mouths but Allah will perfect His Light,
though the disbelievers hate it. It is He Who sent His Messenger
with guidance and the True Religion to exalt it over every
other religion, though the idolaters hate it. (Surat as-Saff:
8-9)
There is no doubt that Allah will keep His promises.
The high morality that will conquer perverse philosophies,
distorted ideologies and false religious understanding is
Islamic morality. The verses quoted above stress that the
disbelievers and pagans cannot prevent this from happening.
This period, in which Islamic morality will be
established, will be in every way a time of love, self-sacrifice,
generosity, honesty, social justice, security and personal
well-being. This period has been called the Golden Age because
of its similarity to depictions of Paradise, but, so far,
such an age has never yet existed. This blessed age will precede
the Last Day; and is now awaiting that time in which Allah
has determined it will come.
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