personality. —Maulana Wahiduddin Khan SPIRITUALLY STRONG A strong believer is better and more lovable to God than a weak believer, and there is good in both. (Prophet of Islam, Sahih Muslim) THERE are two kinds

capacities for the religious cause. But God’s bounties are not limited or restricted to such people. If a weak believer proves deserving, he too will be given high reward by God. A weak believer has certain additional

to be more engaged in prayer and remembrance of God. A weak believer, due to his helplessness, is in a far better position to utter such words of prayer as may invoke God. Such aspects of his nature serve

has been recorded in different books of Hadith Ayesha said: “The Prophet Muhammad used to remember God on every occasion.” (Sahih Muslim, Hadith No. 373) This tradition does not relate to worship. Certain

the real meaning of this tradition. The fact is that remembrance and prayer are the expressions of the soul which has discovered and realized God. A person has to face different types of occasions in

find that there is some aspect of remembrance of God on all occasions. By making these occasions points of reference he can transform them into a high level of remembrance and prayer. Ayesha found this very

WAY TO HAPPINESSMake God your Sole Concern ROBERT Warne Wilson was born on November 3, 1926, in a lower-middle income family in Detroit. He started with humble beginnings and worked his way up to amass

the remembrance of God hearts can find comfort” (THE QURAN 13: 28). To remember God is not to recite the word 'God'. It is to make God one’s sole concern. It is to discover the Creation Plan of God. It

divine culture. It is to embrace Paradise as one’s goal. In a single word, it is to adopt God-oriented life. Finding God means to find one’s real purpose in life. When a person discovers his real purpose in

they striking yours?” “Do tell us,” the Companions replied, “It is remembrance of God,” said the Prophet. (AL-TIRMIDHI, SHAMA’IL) An able and righteous man the most treasured asset Zayd ibn Aslam reports

spend it in the path of God,” volunteered one. Another said that he would like gold-yet another mentioned pearls-so that their wealth could be spent in the furtherance of God’s cause. “What I would like

Abu Ubaidah ibn al Jarrah, Muadh ibn Jabal and Hudhaifah ibn al Yaman, so that I could use them for God’s work.” (AL TARIKH AL-SAGHIR)

than a good deed which makes one proud and arrogant.” Of all actions, the most sublime is remembrance of God Abu Darda reports the Prophet as asking his companions: “Should I not tell you of the action

best and most pure in the presence of your Lord; the action which will raise you up in the sight of God, and is better for you than great expenditure of gold and silver; better too than that you should meet

REMEMBERING GODConscious Acknowledgement ONE of the commandments of the Quran is given in these words: “Believers, remember God with much remembrance.” (33: 41) According to this Quranic verse believers

remember God very much, every day and every moment. This is the greatest teaching of the Quran, and it is the highest form of worship. One who does this will be blessed with the greatest reward from God Almighty

Almighty. What is meant by ‘much remembrance’ of God? Remembrance does not refer to the repetition of some words, but it is in the sense of thinking. Much remembrance, or zikr-e-kathir, is not a kind of

then to continue to serve the parents as before. As regards God, a person’s responsibility is to be grateful to Him, acknowledging His godhead from the deepest recesses of his heart. He should be filled

filled with feelings of acknowledgement of the blessings of God. All his existence should become a remembrance of God Almighty. A person’s responsibility with regard to parents is that he should give them

there is a clash between the commands of the parents and the commands of God, it is incumbent upon a person to fulfil the commands of God. At such times a person’s obedience to the command of parents is not

divine code of ethics—the result of the believer having established a relationship of servitude to God—sets boundaries. In short—the former code of ethics is worldly, whereas the latter is heavenly ethics

the price of Paradise is the realization of God. Nothing less than that can open the gates of Paradise. The truth is that if anything less than realization of God is regarded as the price of Paradise that

made God their supreme concern in the life of this world. Their thinking and feelings have all been devoted to God. Their mornings as well as their evenings have been filled with the remembrance of God

Remembrance is a Thinking ProcessWe learn from the Quran that Iblis has no power over man (15:42). Then the question arises as to how he will make man ungrateful. Actually, there are always reasons for

is the point where Iblis finds an opportunity to mislead man into becoming an ungrateful servant of God. As a result, he fails to turn ingratitude into gratitude. Every incident of ungratefulness is made

gratefulness would bring him. Remembrance is a Thinking Process Of the admonitions given in the language of commands in the Quran, one is of that for which the expression ‘remembrance of God’ has been used. This

DOOMSDAYPeople are rather basking in community pride than living in the Glory of God. We do not find any mention of the Glory of God in the real sense in the speeches and writings and in the activity of presentday

but they have failed to discover the greatness of God. In such a situation, it is but natural that their lives should be devoid of the remembrance of God’s Glory in its true spirit. CLIMATE CHANGE, EARTHQUAKES