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folk of our time) \n It thus became necessary in Allah\u2019s scale of balance (adl) and wisdom that he should single out from His creation those with a capacity to absorb His precepts and prohibitions. This He did to avoid mankind becoming a futile and neglected creation; and so that they may revere Him, uphold His oneness, confirm that Lordship belongs to Him; and so that they may come to realise that He is their creator and Sustainer.

The testimonies of His Lordship are clear and convincing and His proofs are illuminating and apparent, and His signs are visible (everywhere). They invite them to the unity of Allah most powerful and majestic, (by) bearing witness to their creator through affirming His Lordship and Divinity. The effects of His mastery and wondrous management(\u2018ajaaibe tadbeerehee) are(all too) noticeable in His creation.

He urged them to seek knowledge of Him in order not to abandon them in a state in which they were ignorant of Him , His Deen, and His commandments. For it does not befit the Allwise to be not known and for His commands(also) to be not known.

He, magnified be His praise, says: Was not the covenant of the Book taken from them that they should say nothing about Allah except the truth\u201d(al-\u2018Araaf:169) \n \u201c Nay they rejected that which their knowledge could not encompass\u201d(al-Yunus:39). For they had been instructed to comply to Allah\u2019s decrees and prohibitions, and commanded to speak the truth. They were shunned from living their lives in ignorance.

Instead He instructed them to ask questions and to gain a deeper understanding of the faith. He said: \u201cSo that there should remain a party from all those who set out , who gain a deeper understanding of the deen so that they may warn their people when they return(form battle)\u201d(al-Tawbah:122) \n He also said : \u201c so ask the folk of remembrance (knowledge) if you do not know\u201d(an-Nahl:43) \n Were it sufficient for the people of well-being and security( Ahl asSihati wa aSalaama) to base their lives on ignorance, Allah would not have instructed them to ask questions.

Nor would there have been any need for sending messengers bearing Books and courteous behaviour. Were this not the case, then the people of well-being and security would be reduced to the level of beasts and be among the company of the people of affliction and harm(Ahl aDarari waZamaana).