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Dawah: The Mission of Muslim Ummah
with God: He is the All Hearing and the All
Knowing.

According to this passage from the Quran,
the distinction that exists among people is not
that between friends and enemies, but, rather,
between actual friends and potential friends.
This is a law of nature. In accordance with
this, Muslims must not regard anybody as their
enemies. Instead, without discriminating against
anyone, they should try to make everyone their
friend. It is this that is the dawah spirit, and it is
this that is called dawah, or calling people towards
God.
similarly, Muslims must be reminded of the
Quranic verse (5:32) that refers to the heinous
crime of the slaughter of innocent people:
That was why We laid it down for the Children
of Israel that whoever killed a human being,
except as a punishment for murder or for spreading
corruption in the land, shall be regarded as having
killed all mankind, and that whoever saved a

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