In answer to the video "Muhammad's Destruction of Idols"
The issue of best of creatures and worst of creatures has nothing to do with appellation, or belonging to a group or race. Whether in the Quran or the Bible, it has to do with spiritual uprightness. As already explained in another video to another youtuber similarly to this uneducated one, here is the proper definition of the phrase in details.
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 conditional status. It was similarly bestowed upon the Israelites 2:47,5:12-13 before their breaking their covenant, provoking and rebelling against God. Very soon after Jesus' departure, something similar happened among those that claimed to be his followers. They neglected and forgot the directives of their prophet, followed their whims and leaders instead, 5:14,9:31. The common denominator found in the message brought by every prophet, is Islam, surrender to Allah. Each message 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”.
What the prophets brought were essentially a renewal of 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 being can claim ignorance of that gut-feeling
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 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 beautifully 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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