Answer: Your question suggests that Islamic invitation to
non-believers assumes an ideal Islamic State to convince its addressees. The
truth is that although a good Islamic environment is always helpful in
convincing many people, it is not an essential precondition for delivering the
message. Islamic message is first and foremost based on its beliefs. There are
fundamental questions about life which every human being no matter wherever
he/she lives wants to get answers to. The Islamic message addresses those
questions more than anything else. However, we do need to have certain norms
which are to be followed if the basic presentation of Islam is accepted. Some of
those norms are applicable to our individual life and some to our collective
life. A non-Muslim is certainly more likely to be attracted towards the Islamic
message if there are good examples around, both individual as well as
collective. However, the message itself is not dependant upon these examples for
its authentication. However, given the fact that we know that God Almighty would
take into account the circumstances of an individual while deciding about
his/her fate in the Hereafter, in case of those who received the message of
Islam in an environment where no good examples were available, He is likely to
treat such cases more leniently.
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