In answer to the video "The Hateful World of Islam"
After enumerating the favors bestowed on the Israelities, the covenant they had entered into with God and their failure to uphold it despite having witnessed outstanding signs, Allah deposes the Israelites from their position of spiritual leadership and "living torch" over the world and addresses the Muslims
3:110"You are the best of the nations raised up for (the benefit of) men".
This is a honourific but explicitly conditional status that was similarly bestowed upon the Israelites 2:47,5:12-13 before their breaking their covenant with God and neglecting the revelations bestowed on them, as Similarly happened to those that came after Jesus' small band of righteous followers 61:14 that eventually neglected and forgot what their covenant with God consisted of so they ended up exaggerating in religion and innovating 5:14, forsaking what is still referred to in the NT as "the way" of Jesus. The Quran therefore doesnt deny but rather honors the covenants made by God with previous religious communities, each being in essence a manifestation of the pre-eternal covenant that God made with all of humanity when they were still in Adam’s loins
"And when thy Lord took from the Children of Adam, from their loins, their progeny and made them bear witness concerning themselves, “Am I not your Lord?” they said, “Yea, we bear witness”.
The covenants made on earth renew this genetic cognition of divine oneness
33:7"And [remember] when We made with the prophets their covenant, and with thee, and with Noah, Abraham, Moses, and Jesus the son of Mary; We made with them a solemn covenant".
The various prophets thus served the purpose of reminding, so that no human beings can claim that they were unaware of that inner, instinctive knowledge
7:172-3"Lest you should say on the Day of Resurrection, “Truly of this we were heedless,” or lest you should say, “[It is] only that our fathers ascribed partners unto God aforetime, and we were their progeny after them. Wilt Thou destroy us for that which the falsifiers have done?”.
That honorific title now bestowed upon the Muslims is similarily conditional on obedience, righteousness and deep God-consciousness, as stated in the verse itself
"you enjoin what is right and forbid the wrong and believe in Allah".Only those who base their lives on that principle can live up to that covenant, as well as achieve success in this life and the next
4:131"We have enjoined upon those who were granted revelation before your time, as well as upon yourselves, to remain conscious of God".The Quran beautifuly describes those worthy of upholding a divine covenant as such
25:63-73"And the servants of the Beneficent Allah are they who walk on the earth in humbleness, and when the ignorant address them, they say: Peace. And they who pass the night prostrating themselves before their Lord and standing. And they who say: O our Lord! turn away from us the punishment of hell, surely the punishment thereof is a lasting, Surely it is an evil abode and (evil) place to stay. And they who when they spend, are neither extravagant nor parsimonious, and (keep) between these the just mean. And they who do not call upon another god with Allah and do not slay the soul, which Allah has forbidden except in the requirements of justice, and (who) do not commit fornication and he who does this shall find a requital of sin..And they who do not bear witness to what is false, and when they pass by what is vain, they pass by nobly. And they who, when reminded of the communications of their Lord, do not fall down thereat deaf and blind."
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