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warn people so that they will have no excuse to offer on the Last

Day for not having heeded the warnings made to them. In a verse,
these goals are stated as such:
Messengers bringing good news and giving warning, so

that people will have no argument against Allah after the
coming of the messengers. (Surat an-Nisa’: 165)
As Allah reveals in verse 40 of Surat al-Azhab, the Prophet

Muhammad (saas) is the last Prophet. The Prophet Muhammad
(saas) is “… the Messenger of Allah and the Final Seal of the
Prophets…” (Surat al-Azhab: 40) In other words, through the me-
diation of the Prophet Muhammad (saas), the series of Allah’s rev-

elations to humanity have been completed. In spite of this, the re-
sponsibility for communicating and reminding people of the
Qur’an delivered by the Prophet (saas) lies with every Muslim un-
til the end of the world.

The Supremacy of the Morality of
Islam in the World

One of the constant themes of the Qur’an is that of the peo-
ple that Allah has destroyed, because of their wickedness and re-

bellion, and the example to be taken from them. Certainly, there is
a great similarity between those mentioned societies of the past
and some societies of our present time. In our day, there are some
people whose attitude and way of life surpasses even the sexual

perversion of the people of the Prophet Lot (as), the deceitfulness
of the people of Madyan, the arrogance and mocking of the peo-
ple of the Prophet Noah (as), the rebelliousness and wickedness of
the people of Thamud, the ungratefulness of the people of Iram,

as with the comportment of various other societies that have been

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