Synopsis "What Allah Says About Those who Deny the Criterion!"
The Qur'an has been called Al-Furqan because it is the gauge for judging right and wrong, virtue and vice, truth and falsehood. Its purpose is to warn all mankind of the evil consequences of their heedlessness and change of gods. The warner may be AI-Furqan, or the Holy Prophet (saws) to whom it was revealed. In fact, both were the warners, because, they were both sent for one and the same purpose. The message of the Qur'an and the Prophethood of Muhammad (saws) were not meant for any particular country, but for the whole world. Not for their own time, but for all times to come. Whenever a man takes anything as his lord, he does so under the presumption that his god has the power to do good, or bring harm, and make, or mar his fortune. Nobody, would like to worship a powerless god. Now, when it is recognized that none, but Allah, has the real power and authority, in the universe, nobody should bow before anyone other than Him in worship. Nor sing anybody else's hymns of praise. Nor commit, the folly of bowing in worship before anything else except his real God, or recognize any other, as his ruler, because "To Allah belongs the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth, and to Him alone."
