As for the Sabians, whoever among them remained faithful to his religion in his own era is counted among the believers—“no fear shall come upon them, nor shall they grieve.”

However, once Allah, exalted is He, sent Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) with the religion of Islam, and the call of this Islam reached those peoples—Jews, Christians, and Sabians—nothing is accepted from any of them except Islam.

Thus, Allah’s statement, “Whoever seeks a religion other than Islam” refers to the period after Islam came on the tongue of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) and its invitation reached a person; from such a person nothing will be accepted except Islam.

As for those who lived before the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was sent with Islam, or those who might exist today on earth to whom the call of Islam has not reached at all, or to whom it reached in a form distorted from its foundations and reality—such as the Qadianis, for example, whom I have mentioned on other occasions, who have spread throughout Europe and America inviting people to Islam, even though the “Islam” they preach is not Islam in any way, for they claim the coming of prophets after the Seal of the Prophets, Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)—then those peoples, the Europeans and Americans who were invited to this Qadiani “Islam,” and did