Publisher's Synopsis
By definition God is Ultimate Sovereign with total freedom and absolute ability and power to do what He decides for His creatures. God being the Creator of the Universe has absolute wisdom to determine the purpose of His creation. To accomplish the stupendous tasks of creation He uses a portion from the infinite amount of energies at His disposal.God informed in His last textual revelation (the Quran) that He chose man to be His caliph on Earth: Recall when your Lord told the angels that I am to appoint a caliph on earth. They said: "Are You going to appoint one who will make therein corruption and spill blood while we chant Your praise and glorify You?" He said: "I know what you know not." (Quran 2.30) God endowed His potential caliph a breath from His spirit. The breath implies a droplet from the infinite ocean of divine energies and is described as the divine spark in man. Rise and Fall of Bani-Israel & Beyond examines the establishment of the Kingdom of God on Earth by man who is vicar of God on Earth. The purpose of establishing the Divine Kingdom is to build a society based on divine attributes of goodness, truth, compassion, and justice, and thus, all members of society are bestowed with the blessings of peace and prosperity. It started with Prophet Abraham the father of monotheistic faiths. God instituted two lineages of monotheistic faith. The first through Isaac and his son Jacob, also known as Israel, and later through the descendent of Ishmael-the first born son of Prophet Abraham.In the past, a covenant was enacted making Bani-Israel (Children of Israel) vicar of God on Earth; however, due to excessive love of the worldly life, Bani-Israel floundered the covenant with God. As a last opportunity to mend, God sent Prophet Jesus (peace be upon him) with a clear reminder of the divine covenant of loving and serving the Lord with all mind and heart. After their failure to heed the warning, God abrogated the covenant with Bani-Israel and removed them from the status of the chosen nation to be the example for other nations. As a mercy to mankind God transferred the responsibility to establish the Divine Kingdom to Bani-Ismail through his descendant Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and revealed His revised commandments in the Quran. The messenger of Allah raised a new nation of believers from the children of Prophet Ishmael for the task. The divine principles of sanctity of life, freedom, equality, justice, and compassion were implemented during the reign of the messenger of Allah and later during that of his caliphs. After centuries of rule by divine principles, the excessive love of the worldly life made Muslim rulers fail in continuing to uphold those principles.
