|  "Let there be a community among you who calls to the good, enjoins the right, and forbids the wrong" (Quran 3:104)
One of the Muslims' important duties is to command goodness, prevent evil, and call people to Islamic morality.
Howeva, the present chaos & disorder in the Islamic world prevents Muslims from fulfilling this duty, even though many non-Muslims have an increasing interest in Islam and the Quran's values.
God's existence & oneness, the basic tenets of Islam, our Prophet's (may God bless him and grant him peace) life, the Quran's commands, and how Islamic society should b structured have now bcum common topics in the West.
As interested people naturally direct such questions toward Muslims, Muslim must b able to represent Islam in the best possible way.
In the West, this means thru professional audio-visual productions, conferences & meetings, & publications. Moreover, on an individual basis they must serve as role models to the ppl with whom they come into contact.
The Muslim Union is also necessary to resolve many problems caused by ppl's remoteness from religious morality. Circles that oppose religious morality work to make irreligion prevail & often coordinate their actions so that they can move forward in unison.
Irrespective of how much their alliance is based on self-interest, their coordinated action makes it much easier for them to achieve their targets.
Although every system of thought that opposes religious morality is destined to be defeated, Muslims must nevertheless engage these systems in a great ideological struggle to defeat them.
For this reason, one of the Muslims' most urgent responsibilities is to drop their internal differences so that they can spread the Quran's values & invite ppl to the path of God.
Our Lord reveals the believers' responsibility in this regard in the following verse:
"Those who do not believe are the friends and protectors of one another. If you do not act in this way (protect each other), there will be turmoil in the land and great corruption." (Quran 8:73)
The formation of the Islamic Union wil increase the pace of all efforts made to spread Quran's morality. As in many other areas, such a combined effort wil b rewarded many times over, and true knowledge will reach all people far more quickly and in a much better manner.
At present, Muslims r making individual as well as combined efforts to explain & spread Islam. However, the Islamic Union will make these efforts more practical & systematic.
Furthermore, some people who claim to represent Islam but display aggression & crudeness, which arent part of Islam, wil b defeated; true Islam wil b defined; and the erroneous stereotypes created by certain people will be destroyed.
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