The dawah team of the present time are the potential candidates for this honoured position of ikhwan ar-rasul. Now it is up to each and every one of the followers of the Prophet to convert this potential into actuality by performing this role, first discovering Islam for themselves—and then becoming da‘ees (those who call people to God) in the true sense of the word. This entails imbibing the spirit of well-wishing for all mankind, so that the following hadith comes true in their case: ‘There will be no home remaining—big or small—into which God has not caused the word of Islam to enter.’ This is not a matter of being a chosen people; it is a matter of discharging one’s responsibility. And it is only by living with the dawah mission and dying with the dawah mission—by making it their primary concern and making everything else secondary—that they will be able to discharge this responsibility.