and falsehood. It is important, therefore, to reflect upon the Prophet’s admonition to believers: ‘God does not need the fast of one who does not leave off falsity in speaking or who acts according to his

entails cutting oneself off from the world and turning to God; not in a physical sense, but having one’s heart and mind continually directed towards God, whatever bodily activity one may be engaged in. When

When a person has elevated himself from the world, God endows him with wisdom, which emanates from his lips. He is shown the ills of the world, and their remedies. He is brought safely to the abode of peace

Prophet once blessed Ibn Abbas (d.68 AH) in these words: ‘Allahumma faqqih ho fiddin’, that is, ‘O God, bestow upon him understanding in religion’. By these words the Prophet did not mean exclusively knowledge

believers. The Quran uses the term Shariah with the meaning of ‘religion’, that is a way, ordained by God for man to travel on in the course of his life. The word shariah was used in the Prophet’s time for

jurisprudence from which all other sources derive their authority. It consists of the very word of God revealed to the Prophet Muhammad over a period of twenty-three years (AD 610-632). That is why the

to the Prophet and said, 'O Prophet of God, the tribe of Dous are engrossed in fun and frolic; so you pray for their damnation.’ Instead, the Prophet prayed, ‘O God, guide the tribe of Dous, and then he

for their guidance and wished them well. The matter of punishment to any wrongdoer belongs to God alone and is no concern of anyone else. After the Prophet’s migration to Madinah, there was an incident

of the murderers for one month until the Angel Gabriel appeared to the Prophet and told him that 'God has not sent you as the invoker of curses and damnation but as a mercy to mankind.' Then these verses

books Al-Meezan and Al-Bayaan and his lectures. I was then able to understand the concept of Islam, God, rituals, practices, Dos and Don’ts of Islam. I also shed away the previous notion about the concept

concept of being Khalifah as the purpose of my life. However, I could never establish my connection with God and I did know how to do it. What was your earlier notion about religion? I was brought up as a traditional

yearning for me to study more material especially how he explained the discovery and understanding of God through his experiences and through his study of nature. Kindly describe your first meeting with Maulana

an atheist is more an outcome of being against theism than a self-discovery of the non-existence of God. Atheism was earlier backed on scientific validation, however, it has now lost its foundations and

This means scientists are not in a position to say that there is no god, they can just take a skeptical stand on the existence of God. This is because the accepted base for belief in something in the intellectual

intellectual world is scientific, but since there is no scientific discovery about the non-existence of God, this is still subject to interpretation. Towards the end of the 19th century, there was a strong wave

cool and rational in their approach on subsequent occasions. Failure is never final or fatal. With God given hope and a change in strategy through wise planning our past failures can be converted into success

places in India, people believe these diseases are caused because the goddess is angry with their family or community. The goddess expresses her anger through the diseases. The people believe that the

please her. They do not feed the sick child or care for him because they fear this will annoy the goddess more. So the sick child becomes very weak and either dies or takes a long time to get cured. These

banished such superstitious beliefs about disease, announcing in no uncertain terms that none except God had the power to harm or benefit humanity. The Creator was the only being who had such power. All the

monotheism, or the concept of unity of God. There is a verse in the Quran that reads: The believers, the Jews, the Christians, and the Sabeans, all those who believe in God and the Last Day and do good deeds

humankind, to guide them to the right path and to spirituality. The Quran says: Say, “We believe in God and in what has been sent down to us and to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob and the Tribes. We believe

everything in the cosmos is an ansh, or part of divinity. They believe in the concept of an indwelling god, that is, every human being has a content of divinity. Due to this concept, the Hindu mind accords