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2:133 - Were ye witnesses when death appeared before Jacob? Behold he said to his sons: "What
will ye worship after me?" They said: "We shall worship thy Allah and the Allah of thy fathers
of Abraham Isma`il and Isaac the one (true) Allah to Him we bow (in Islam)." 131132
131 The whole of the Children of Israel are called to witness one of their slogans, that they worshipped "the God of their
fathers." The idea in their minds got narrowed down to that of a tribal God. But they are reminded that their ancestors
had the principle of Islam in them - the worship of the One True and Universal God. The death-bed scene is
described in Jewish tradition. (2.133)
2:208 - O ye who believe! enter into Islam whole-heartedly; and follow not the footsteps of the Evil
One; for he is to you an avowed enemy.
3:19 - The Religion before Allah is Islam (submission to His will): nor did the people of the Book
dissent therefrom except through envy of each other after knowledge had come to them. But
if any deny the Signs of Allah Allah is swift in calling to account. 359
359 Bagyan: through envy, through selfish contumacy or obstinacy, through sheer contrary-mindedness, or desire to resist
or rebel. Cf. ii. 90, and ii. 213. (3.19)
3:52 - When Jesus found unbelief on their part he said: "Who will be my helpers to (the work of)
Allah?" Said the Disciples: "We are Allah's helpers we believe in Allah and do thou bear
witness that we are Muslims. 392
392 The story of Jesus is told with special application to the time of the Prophet Muhammad. Note the word helpers
(Ansar) in this connection, and the reference to plotters in iii. 54. It was the one Religion-the Religion of Allah, which
was in essence the religion of Abraham, Moses, and Jesus. The argument runs: who do ye then now make divisions
and reject the living Teacher? Islam is: bowing to the Will of Allah. All who have faith should bow to the Will of Allah
and be Muslims. (3.52)
3:67 - Abraham was not a Jew nor yet a Christian but he was true in faith and bowed his will to
Allah's (which is Islam) and he joined not gods with Allah. 404
3:83 - Do they seek for other than the Religion of Allah? While all creatures in the heavens and on
earth have willing or unwilling bowed to His Will (accepted Islam) and to Him shall they all be
brought back. 417
417 Allah's Truth is manifest, and all that is good and true and sane and normal accepts it with joy. But even where there
is "disease in the heart" (Q. ii. 10), or judgment is obscured by perversity, every creature must eventually see and
acknowledge Allah and His power (ii. 167). Cf. R. Bridges: "Testament of Beauty": iv. 1419-22:-"For God's love is
unescapable as nature's environment, which if a man ignore or think to thrust it off, he is the ill-natured fool that
runneth blindly on death." All Nature adores Allah, and Islam asks for nothing peculiar or sectarian; it but asks that we
follow our nature and make our will conformable to Allah's Will as seen in Nature, history, and revelation. Its message
is universal. (3.83)
3:84 - Say: "We believe in Allah and in what has been revealed to us and what was revealed to
Abraham Isma`il Isaac Jacob and the Tribes and in (Books) given to Moses Jesus and the
Prophets from their Lord; we make no distinction between one and another among them and
to Allah do we bow our will (in Islam)."
3:85 - If anyone desires a religion other than Islam (submission to Allah) never will it be accepted of
him; and in the Hereafter he will be in the ranks of those who have lost (all spiritual good). 418
418 The Muslim position is clear. The Muslim does not claim to have a religion peculiar to himself. Islam is not a sect or an
ethnic religion. In its view all Religion is one, for the Truth is one. It was the religion preached by all the earlier
Prophets. It was the truth taught by all the inspired Books. In essence it amounts to a consciousness of the Will and
Plan of Allah and a joyful submission to that Will and Plan. If any one wants a religion other than that, he is false to his
own nature, as he is false to Allah's Will and Plan. Such a one cannot expect guidance, for he has deliberately
renounced guidance. (A) Cf. ii. 161-62. (3.85)
3:102 - O ye who believe! fear Allah as He should be feared and die not except in a state of Islam.
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428 Our whole being should be permeated with Islam: it is not a mere veneer or outward show. (3.102)
3:110 - Ye are the best of peoples evolved for mankind enjoining what is right 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 but most of them are perverted transgressors. 434
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