3.WHAT SHOULD BE MY ATTITUDE SO THAT I CAN ENTER HEAVEN?efore the advent of Islam, there lived a person in Arabia who was very generous. The Prophet of Islam was once asked if this person would go to Paradise

sense of word and all their efforts should thus be directed toward the achievement of this one goal.4.WHAT SHOULD BE THE RIGHT PRAYER THAT WE SHOULD MAKE TO GOD?In this world, every person is born to lead

generally speaking. They say that they have got everything without God, so they ask, what need do they have for God? What a strange delusion Satan has pushed into people’s minds! Everything that the people

journey, I met a person from Kuwait. His name was Ali Hasan. During our conversation, he said that the Islam that Arab people have nowa-days is extraordinary. For instance, if you ask an Arab how the weather

reply. However, these are only catchphrases (takyakalaam) of theirs. It is not the expression of any Islamic spirit.

3.WHAT SHOULD BE MY ATTITUDE SO THAT I CAN ENTER HEAVEN?efore the advent of Islam, there lived a person in Arabia who was very generous. The Prophet of Islam was once asked if this person would go to Paradise

sense of word and all their efforts should thus be directed toward the achievement of this one goal.4.WHAT SHOULD BE THE RIGHT PRAYER THAT WE SHOULD MAKE TO GOD?In this world, every person is born to lead

turn to take flight. The Prophet and his companions emerged victorious. This incident is known in Islamic history as the battle of Hunayan. After this victory, six thousand members of the Hawazin tribe were

criminals. According to the prevailing custom, they should all have been put to death. But the Prophet of Islam pardoned them all and set them free without imposing any conditions. This extraordinary treatment

unusual clemency by Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, they were honour-bound to enter the fold of the religion brought by him to mankind. And that is precisely what they did. All the people of the Hawazin tribe-both

principle of non-violence. Islam does not allow for violence in any circumstance except that of unavoidable defense.The Present Age and Non-ViolenceThe greatest problem facing Islam in present times, to my

they completely forgot that the policy of Islam was that of non-violence and not of violence. It is as a result of this deviation from the teachings of Islam that even after a I00-year long bloody war

outcome has, in fact, been the reverse. They have lost to an indescribable and unimaginable extent what still remained to them after losing their empires. According to Imam Malik, this ummah will be reformed

by what he regards as public welfare. He focuses in his discourses on those particular aspects that he thinks demand particular attention. Conversely, he either ignores or else only lightly touches upon

approach are to be found, in some way or the other, in the sayings of the Prophet of Islam as well as all the missionaries of Islam. Without this, it is not possible to engage in dawah work. This matter is perfectly

instance, a writer tells a daʿi, a missionary, that he would like to publish books on Islam, and, in that way, serve Islam. In reply, the daʿi says, “Nothing happens through books. You will sit and write,

turn to take flight. The Prophet and his companions emerged victorious. This incident is known in Islamic history as the battle of Hunayan. After this victory, six thousand members of the Hawazin tribe were

criminals. According to the prevailing custom, they should all have been put to death. But the Prophet of Islam pardoned them all and set them free without imposing any conditions. This extraordinary treatment

unusual clemency by Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, they were honour-bound to enter the fold of the religion brought by him to mankind. And that is precisely what they did. All the people of the Hawazin tribe-both

principle of non-violence. Islam does not allow for violence in any circumstance except that of unavoidable defense.The Present Age and Non-ViolenceThe greatest problem facing Islam in present times, to my

they completely forgot that the policy of Islam was that of non-violence and not of violence. It is as a result of this deviation from the teachings of Islam that even after a I00-year long bloody war

outcome has, in fact, been the reverse. They have lost to an indescribable and unimaginable extent what still remained to them after losing their empires. According to Imam Malik, this ummah will be reformed

is the book of God. It has been preserved in its entirety since its revelation to the Prophet of Islam between 610 and 632 A.D. It is a book that brings glad tidings to mankind, along with divine admonition

that they can be repeated at any time. All these are known facts of today, and these known facts are what make the Quran’s claim credible that man’s intentions, his utterances and his actions, are all in

entered in the registers of the angels. The trance of death will come revealing the truth: that is what you were trying to escape. The trumpet will be sounded. This is the Day [you were] warned of. Each

Islam, whereas war is only temporary and allowed only in exceptional cases. Here it would be pertinent to refer to a great companion of the Prophet. After the period of the pious Caliphate, a group

these wars? Abdullah ibn Umar replied that “the command of the Quran to fight against fitna is not what you hold to be fitna. Fitna meant religious persecution and we have already fought and put an end

hostilities and creating new fitna once again, which is akin to creating new obstacles for peaceful Islamic da’wah (al-Bukhari, Sahih, Kitab at-Tafsir, under al-Baqarah and al-Anfal). Abdullah ibn Umar