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assured of my intercession."155
When the Caller says, "Allah is The Greatest," he is telling the
world that he bows before no one as an object of worship in his life
except Allah, The Most High. When he says, "I bear witness that
there is no god except Allah, and I bear witness that Muhammad is
the Messenger of Allah," he is declaring the Unity of Allah; that He
is One Alone, and that Muhammad is not a divinity, but a ser-
vant of Allah.
Prophet Muhammad ?§ obligated all of us to protect the purity
of our religion by never forgetting that he was neither a god nor an
angel, but a human messenger for human beings on earth. The Ho-
ly Qur'an states, "If there were settled on earth angels walking
about in peace and quiet, We would certainly have sent down
from the heavens an angel for a messenger." There is no better ex-
ample for man than another man who is courageous, righteous
and Divinely Guided.
After bearing witness to the Unity of Allah, and to the pro-
When the Caller says, "Allah is The Greatest," he is telling the
world that he bows before no one as an object of worship in his life
except Allah, The Most High. When he says, "I bear witness that
there is no god except Allah, and I bear witness that Muhammad is
the Messenger of Allah," he is declaring the Unity of Allah; that He
is One Alone, and that Muhammad is not a divinity, but a ser-
vant of Allah.
Prophet Muhammad ?§ obligated all of us to protect the purity
of our religion by never forgetting that he was neither a god nor an
angel, but a human messenger for human beings on earth. The Ho-
ly Qur'an states, "If there were settled on earth angels walking
about in peace and quiet, We would certainly have sent down
from the heavens an angel for a messenger." There is no better ex-
ample for man than another man who is courageous, righteous
and Divinely Guided.
After bearing witness to the Unity of Allah, and to the pro-