92 Preface إِنَّ هٰذِهِ أُمَّتُكُم أُمَّةً واحِدَةً وَأَنا رَبُّكُم فَاعبُدونِYusuf AliVerily, this brotherhood of yours is a single Brotherhood,1 and I am your Lord and Cherisher: therefore serve Me (and no other).Ummah: this is best translated by Brotherhood here. “Community”, “race”, and “nation”, and “people” are words which import other ideas and do not quite correspond to “Ummah”. “Religion” and “Way of Life” are derived meanings, which could be used in other passages, but arc less appropriate here. Our attention has been drawn to people of veiy different temperaments and virtues, widely different in time, race, language, surroundings, history, and work to be performed, but forming the closest brotherhood as being men and women united in the highest service of God. They pre-figure the final and perfected Brotherhood of Islam.